In three Akwa Ibom oil communities, families now live within metres of blazing gas flares that have turned night into daylight, poisoned air and water, and exposed the widening gap between Nigeria's ...

A World Bank report outlines the amount of excess natural gas that is burned off, a practice that wastes energy and increases climate-warming emissions. The amount of natural gas flared worldwide ...

The House of Representatives on Tuesday asked its relevant committees to conduct an investigative hearing to ascertain the level of compliance with the Flared Gas (Prevention of Waste and Pollution) ...

Introduction Nigeria sits atop Africa’s largest natural gas reserves but has for decades, opted to flare large quantities of ...

When leaders from Exxon Mobil and BP gathered last month with other fossil-fuel executives to declare they were serious about climate change, they cited progress in curbing an energy-wasting practice ...

Global flaring emissions from upstream oil and gas production increased by 7% from 2022 to 2023, reversing a positive trend. The Middle East, Africa, and Russia accounted for 70% of total flaring ...

The bill sponsor said that the bill represent a decisive legislative intervention aimed at addressing the long-standing and damaging practice of gas flaring in the country. A bill for an Act to ...

Digital assets continue to be a tool to address shortfalls in the energy supply chain despite criticism from environmental activists. Natural gas is currently in high demand from Bitcoin mining ...

FILE - A flare to burn methane from oil production is seen on a well pad near Watford City, N.D., on Aug. 26, 2021. The U.S. government this week is holding its first onshore oil and gas sales from ...

For decades, the sight of roaring flames lighting up the night sky in Nigeria’s Niger Delta has been both a symbol of oil wealth and a reminder of environmental neglect. Gas flaring, long treated as ...

UGHELLI, Delta State, Nigeria (Reuters) - Jonah Gbemre often has no electricity, but he says his home is permanently lit at night by the flames of waste gas being "flared" near his home town in ...