Global Flaring

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Interactive Map Detects Gas Flaring Volume Worldwide

November 1, 2017/in Biodiversity, Climate, Flaring, Freshwater, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Oil & Gas /by Dan Cogswell

SkyTruth has built on NOAA’s work in estimating natural gas flaring volume by creating an interactive map showing individual flaring locations as identified by NOAA’s Earth Observation Group (EOG). Flaring – the method of burning off the unwanted natural gas in massive, open flames – is a chronic practice in oil fields around the world. […]

Global Flaring Map Reset

June 19, 2017/in Biodiversity, Climate, Flaring, Freshwater, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas, Oil & Gas, Protected Area Monitoring, SkyTruthing, Watchdog /by Dan Cogswell

The wasteful practice of flaring off natural gas from oil and gas fields is again making news, coinciding with a new release of SkyTruth’s Global Flaring Map that visualizes gas flaring activity around the globe. This map relies on the Nightfire data provided by NOAA’s Earth Observation Group, which has written extensively about their work […]