Despite exacting a heavy environmental and financial toll, routine flaring remains a persistent practice in the oil and gas sector. This gas could be captured and used for productive purposes, but a lot of it simply isn’t. While flaring levels are down 5% from 2019, this is still a huge amount—142 billion m3/yr in fact. This wasted gas is the equivalent of 5,000 MW of power over 10 years, enough to power millions of homes.
At Aggreko, we live by the conviction that there is a technical solution for every flare. The real challenges are more prosaic, practical, and financial. With that in mind, here are the three most frequent hurdles we encounter with flare gas to power projects, along with how to solve them.
