{"id":450738,"date":"2011-06-30T07:55:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T07:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/30\/global-gas-flaring-down-by-9-%e2%80%93-world-bank\/"},"modified":"2011-06-30T07:55:14","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T07:55:14","slug":"global-gas-flaring-down-by-9-world-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/global-gas-flaring-down-by-9-world-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Global gas flaring down by 9% \u2013 World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"68.4695446481\">\n<p>You Are Here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\">Home<\/a> \u00bb <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/category\/oil-and-gas\/\" title=\"View all posts in Oil &#038; Gas\" rel=\"category tag\">Oil &#038; Gas<\/a> \u00bb Global gas flaring down by 9% \u2013 World Bank<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span>Page last updated at Thursday, June 30, 2011 7:07 AM \/\/ <\/span><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gas-plant.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3665\" title=\"gas-plant\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/gas-plant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a>The World Bank-led Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership (GGFR) says reductions in gas flaring in several countries helped bring down flaring to 134 billion cubic meters (bcm) worldwide in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Citing the latest satellite estimates data gathered by scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the World Bank said this is a 13-bcm drop from 2009.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis 9% global reduction was achieved even as global crude oil production rose by two million barrels a day over the same period\u201d, the Bank said in a release on June 27, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, the decline was due to flaring dropping by 11.4 bcm in Russia and 1.2 bcm in Kazakhstan which is roughly equivalent to \u201c30 million tons of Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, or to taking almost six million cars off the road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These two countries have made important investments in associated gas utilization projects, the Bank said.<\/p>\n<p>Director of the World Bank\u2019s Sustainable Energy Department, Vijay Iyer, said \u201cThese latest estimates reinforce a positive downward trend in flaring\u2026Since 2005, gas flaring has dropped 22% thanks to the efforts of the countries concerned, and significant support provided by the Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank said, until concerted action to reduce gas flaring began after the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development, the practice associated with oil production added about 400 million tons of CO2 emissions each year.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By Ekow Quandzie<\/p>\n<h4>Comments<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanabusinessnews.com\/2011\/06\/30\/global-gas-flaring-down-by-9-\u2013-world-bank\/\" title=\"Global gas flaring down by 9% \u2013 World Bank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Global gas flaring down by 9% \u2013 World Bank<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> You Are Here: Home \u00bb Oil &#038; Gas \u00bb Global gas flaring down by 9% \u2013 World Bank Page last updated at Thursday, June 30, 2011 7:07 AM \/\/ The World Bank-led Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership (GGFR) says reductions in gas flaring in several countries helped bring down flaring to 134 billion cubic meters (bcm) worldwide in 2010. Citing the latest satellite estimates data gathered by scientists at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the World Bank said this is a 13-bcm drop from 2009<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":450739,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Global gas flaring down by 9% \u2013 World Bank - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/30\/global-gas-flaring-down-by-9-world-bank\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Global gas flaring down by 9% \u2013 World Bank - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"You Are Here: Home \u00bb Oil &amp; Gas \u00bb Global gas flaring down by 9% \u2013 World Bank Page last updated at Thursday, June 30, 2011 7:07 AM \/\/ The World Bank-led Global Gas Flaring Reduction partnership (GGFR) says reductions in gas flaring in several countries helped bring down flaring to 134 billion cubic meters (bcm) worldwide in 2010. 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