Gas Flaring: Shut all onshore well rigs…temporarily
April 6th, 2008 | Published in Energy, Nigeria, Oil, Technology | 2 Comments
Natural gas is a by-product of the oil drilling, and Nigeria flares the largest quantity in the world. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) told the House Committee on Petroleum that meeting the government’s target to end gas flaring by 2009 is unrealistic without proper funding.
Even Shell said it would cost about $6 billion USD to end flaring at the 1,000+ wells its owns in Nigeria.
There are no easy options to stopping gas flaring, this has been made clear enough. What would have been the best approach is to use the gas domestically to power electricity plants. Even this comes with a several billion dollar price tag.
May be it’s time to just shut all onshore oil wells until Nigeria is ready to deal with the issue. After all, the people whose lives are being made miserable should matter most than some petrol$$$ or special interest groups…right?
Video below speaks to the issue gas flaring:
April 16th, 2008 at 6:31 am (#)
Great post! I must link to this.
June 30th, 2008 at 1:52 pm (#)
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