LOK
SABHA
Shri Santosh Kumar
Gangwar, Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas informed
the Lok Sabha in a written reply today that during 2001-02 out
of total gas production of 29.71 Billion Cubic Metre (BCM) a
quantity of about 1.67 BCM was flared, which constitutes about
5.6%. He emphasised that gas is being flared mainly due to the
technical and safety reasons, the time lag between start up
of oil production and the creation of associated down stream
infrastructure for associated gas, as well as the non-availability
of consumers in remote areas and fluctuation in consumer offtake.
The Minister
further informed the House that continuous efforts are being
made by the upstream oil companies for reduction of gas flaring
and the investments required for this purpose vary from time
to time. Some of the measures undertaken to reduce gas flaring
include -
- Installation of compression
facility, debottlenecking and construction of gas evacuation
pipelines.
- Incorporation of capacity
control in gas compressors and installation of Gas Holders
in order to negate surging effect.
- Implementation of storage-cum-flow
back scheme in order to conserve gas in underground depleted
reservoirs during low off-take by outside consumers.
