Sometimes, it's essential to flare gas for safety reasons. Oil collects underground in reservoirs and gas accumulates around it, which has to be drawn off before the oil is drilled. If there are ...

Major oil companies are not declaring a ... Hussein Faleh/BBC Gas flaring has become the backdrop to children's lives in Basra In the Basra region, new cases of all types of cancer rose by 20% ...

Those most at risk include older adults, children, and people who work outdoors ... And the Center has petitioned the agency to reject yet another permit for inadequate flare monitoring. The oil and ...