EIA: US flaring hit record in 2018

Energy Information Administration data indicates practice has only increased amid infrastructure bottlenecks

Flaring data: Excess gas is burned off from a plant in the Permian Basin oil production area near Wink, Texas in August 2018 — Flaring data: Excess gas is burned off from a plant in the Permian Basin oil production area near Wink, Texas in August 2018Foto: Reuters/Scanpix

Kathrine Schmidt

Published 6 December 2019, 22:17Updated 6 December 2019, 22:34