UK North Sea flaring cut by 22 percent in one year
11 Mar 2021
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OGA reports that flaring in the North Seal fell by 22% in 2020 from the previous year as production facilities cut the overall volume to 33 billion cubic feet (bcf), a reduction which is roughly equivalent to the gas demand of 200,000 UK homes, and is the lowest level of flaring on the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) on OGA records.
Flaring intensity, the measure of how much gas was flared per unit of oil produced, also decreased from 114 standard cubic feet of gas for every barrel of oil (scf/bbl) to 95 in 2020, a 10-year low. This measure has now fallen for three consectutive years from 128 in 2017.
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