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Legislative framework of Russian APG flaring

... oil reserves in Russia are characteristic of APG content, whereas the oil fields that are responsible for flaring are mostly concentrated on the territory of West Siberia, between Yamalo-Nenetsk and Khanty-Mansiys regions. The underlying reason for flaring rather than the gas usage for energy purpose is the lack of nearby markets and sparse population with its insufficient local gas demand. Thus, in order to avoid flaring in these particular regions it is necessary to install relevant technology (gas-to-liquid, for instance) and redefine ...

07.06.2016

To flare or not to flare? Russian APG case.

... Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment suggested that 100-fold increase of “penalty fees for those who burned more than 5 percent of the produced APG” has a higher potential to make companies comply with the legislature. In 2014 CREON Energy jointly with WWF encouraged 19 oil companies to provide statistics on flaring, with 11 of them joining the initiative. Also, in 2015, for the first time in its history it was Russia that hosted Global Forum on gas flaring organized under the umbrella of the World Bank’s GGFRP. The loans from the World Bank can help ...

07.06.2016

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