Gas flaring

Gas flaring

1. To answer this question I will first define what is gas flaring. Gas flaring is a combustion device to burn excess or unwanted liquid or gases that are released during unplanned or normal over pressuring operation in various industrial activities. I think the author refers this as “unwanted” since this gas flaring is a major source of greenhouse gases. The processes is also associated with heat and noise. I conducted an intensive research to determine how much gas are flared annually. I found that about 150 billion m3 of gases are vented annually. This is significant and therefore there is pressing need to estimate flared by known its distribution, composition, and volume in order to apply suitable flare gas recovery and disposal.
2. The Niger Delta of the Niger River is located directly on the Guinea Gulf on the Atlantic Ocean (in Nigeria). Typically, it is considered to be located within 9 costal southern countries. The Niger Delta is also known as Oil River since it is a major palm oil producer. This Delta is found to be high populated and I presume because of high big population working in oil Extraction Company. Research indicate that Niger Delta covers about 27,000sq mi (70,000 km²). This implies that Niger Delta makes up about 7% of Nigeria’s land mass. Cartographically and historically, it includes present Baylesa, Delta, and River States.
3. Globally, about 150 billion m³ of associated gas are flared and vented every year. Africa id found to flare over 40 billion m³ annually, and 35 billion m³ are flared in sub-Saharan Africa. Meanwhile, Nigeria alone flares over 23 billion m³ annually of the gas produced during extraction of crude oil. This depicts that Nigeria alone constitutes about 13% of global flaring. Such flaring turns to greenhouse gas emission of 45 million ton of carbon 2 oxide of out the global total 400 tons per year. However, Nigeria has partnered with the GGFR to support and facilitate state effort to use flared gases by promoting efficient regulatory framework as well as tackling the constraints on gas utilization.