This Global Flaring Visualization is an animated map showing nightly, infrared satellite detected natural gas flaring across the world.
For toll reasons crude oil producers often flare marsh gas together with other gases produced past times crude oil wells rather than recover the gases. This flaring adds huge amounts of CO2 to the atmosphere together with the gases themselves tin often pollute the air.
The map uses information collected past times NOAA’s Suomi NPP satellite to demo a nightly global snapshot of natural gas flaring over the final 5 months. Identifiable hot-spots on the map include flaring from the Bakken shale formation inwards North Dakota together with the huge natural gas flaring inwards Russian Federation together with the Middle East.
