United Nations UNU-WIDER Working Paper 2021/6: Capturing economic and social value from hydrocarbon gas flaring and venting: solutions and actions
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Between 2005 and 2019, Russia, Nigeria, Indonesia, and Colombiareduced flare volumes. Canada, Brazil, and Australia maintained stable volumes, some with increased oil production. Since 2017, Mexico and the US significantly increased their volumes of gas flared...Companies in countries such as Angola, China, Kuwait, Russia, Kazakhstan, and Qatar have over time increased oil production while also reducing gas flaring....In the period 2005–1 9, Russia was able to reduce flaring the most...Over a period of nine years, Russia managed to reduce its gas flaring by 69 per cent to 18.3 bcm through a range of measures and developments.
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In 2009, Russia adopted a decree requiring APG utilization of at least 95 per cent from 1 January 2012 onwards. In addition, the Russian central government facilitated higher-priority access for APG producers to Gazprom’s Gas Transmission System (GTS).
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The Russian state is a declared supporter of the World Bank’s ‘Zero Routine Flaring by 2030’ initiative, where Gazprom (Neft) is among the endorsers.
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NGOs working at local, national, regional, and global levels are holding companies toaccount. WWF in Russia .... Russia has been working with GGFR, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), WWF, and other organizations to improve on the accuracy of its gas flaring reporting. This has triggered a number of high-profile initiatives to reduce flaring.
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WWF Russia has been independently monitoring flaring of associated gas since 2008. Its advocacy and campaign work includes the development in 2014 of an Environmental Rating of 20 oil and gas companies together with CREON Capital, a fund management company. The index is produced in consultation with companies, government, and civil society. WWF considers that environmental rankings can be an important tool for the public monitoring of projects and a stimulus for participating companies to improve environmental performance.
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