Shell claims deep cut in Nigeria flaring

Shell flaring: Company claims reductions

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By News wires

 19 June 2012 22:53 GMT

Shell, operator of Nigeria’s largest oil fields, said flaring of natural gas at its deposits in the West African country fell by more than 60% in the past nine years.

“Flaring dropped by more than 60% from over 0.6 billion cubic feet of gas a day to about 0.2 billion cubic feet,” the company said today in an e-mailed statement from Lagos, the commercial capital, according to Reuters.

The decline followed investments of more than $3 billion to build gathering facilities since 2000, Shell said according to the news wire.

Nigeria, holder of Africa’s largest gas reserves of more than 187 trillion cubic feet, flares most of the fuel it produces along with oil because it lacks the infrastructure to process it.

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