{"id":1185,"date":"2026-06-24T04:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2026-06-24T04:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T04:00:23","slug":"gas-flaring-by-fossil-fuel-producers-rose-in-2025-world-bank-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Gas flaring by fossil fuel producers rose in 2025, World Bank says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Efforts to fix one of the oil industry\u2019s thorniest pollution problems are moving in the wrong direction.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1183\">AI companies should release environmental impact and commit to clean energy, UN chief says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fossil fuel producers flared more methane gas around the world in 2025 despite years of pledges to reduce the wasteful practice, according to data released today by the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The volume of gas flared rose 6% last year to 167 billion cubic meters, equivalent to roughly half of Europe\u2019s annual gas consumption. Burning it off released more than 500 million tons of greenhouse gases \u2014 more than the UK\u2019s annual emissions. <\/p>\n<p>Oil producers often incinerate the gas that emerges alongside oil when pipelines, processing facilities or buyers for the gas aren\u2019t available. The flares spew a mix of pollutants, including CO2 and methane, which contribute to global warming and threaten the health of nearby residents.<\/p>\n<p>More troubling, the data shows flaring increased faster than oil production for a third straight year, meaning producers are getting dirtier, at least on this one crucial metric, for every barrel they pump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe latest trends are disappointing,\u201d said James Turitto, a director at the environmental nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. \u201cFlaring associated gas is a waste of useful energy and a nation\u2019s economic resources, especially at a time when the world is reeling from its second energy crisis in four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The World Bank examines satellite data from thousands of flares from oil and gas producers around the world. It has produced data using this methodology going back to 2012. The total for 2025 was the second highest in those 14 years, trailing only 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The increase comes despite years of commitments by industry and governments to phase out flaring. More than 50 companies signed the Oil &amp; Gas Decarbonization Charter unveiled at the COP28 climate conference in 2023, which pledged to sharply reduce emissions and curtail flaring. Meanwhile, dozens of governments have developed policies meant to stem the practice.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1181\">L.A. voters will be asked to increase taxes, yet again. Will they do it for firefighters?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll parties need to become a lot more responsible than they\u2019ve historically been,\u201d said John Shinn, a former advisor to Chevron Corp. on climate change and sustainability issues.<\/p>\n<p>The gas flared each year is enough to power hundreds of data centers, and is worth over $50 billion, according to the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scale of the waste is quite staggering, especially since a large proportion of this is fixable with proven technology whilst also delivering attractive returns,\u201d said Mark Davis, chief executive officer of Capterio, a flare tracking company in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>Pollution from flares also harms the health of people living nearby. A 2024 study by researchers at Boston University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill estimated that flaring and venting from U.S. oil and gas operations caused 710 premature deaths, 73,000 childhood asthma exacerbations and more than $7 billion in annual health damages.<\/p>\n<p>Russia, Iran and Iraq accounted for half of all gas flaring worldwide last year, according to the World Bank data. Venezuela, Mexico, Libya, Algeria, Nigeria and the U.S. contributed another third.<\/p>\n<p>Of those nine countries, the U.S. was the only one to reduce flaring last year \u2014 aided by the completion of the Matterhorn Express Pipeline, which enables oil producers in the Permian Basin to sell gas that was previously flared. All told, U.S. flaring dropped 7% to 5 billion cubic meters. That\u2019s 58% below the country\u2019s peak reached during the shale boom, though it remains flat compared to a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>One notable success story is Kazakhstan. A decade ago, the country had the ninth most flaring in the world. But the government implemented legislative bans and foisted financial penalties on producers who ran afoul of these rules. The country has cut flaring 88% over the past decade even as oil production increased, demonstrating that enforcement can work. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/california-relocation-journal.com\/?p=1179\">Los Angeles tries again to phase out urban oil production<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Elgin writes for Bloomberg.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fossil fuel producers flared more methane gas around the world in 2025, despite years of pledges to reduce the wasteful practice, according to data released today by the World Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gas flaring by fossil fuel producers rose in 2025, World Bank says - 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