Africa makes further cut in gas flaring, Exxon flares big


Issue 460 - 15 May 2022 - By Ajay Ubhi | 1 minute read

Sub-Saharan African countries flared 12.15bcm of natural gas in 2021, according to newly-released data from the World Bank Group’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR), the equivalent of 32.4m tonnes of CO2 and $1.4bn worth of gas sales.

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