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Total to reduce gas flaring by 50% by 2012

Anyone who has ever seen an oil refinery has surely seen the gas flares buring off excess natural gas produced during the refining process. Obviously this combustion generates a lot of CO2 and wastes potential fuel. French oil company Total decreed a "zero flaring" policy for any new refining projects back in 2000, but that didn't apply to any existing facilities. Now Total will be reducing flaring at all of their existing facilities by fifty percent by 2012. Gas flaring comprised 23 percent of Total's green house gas emissions in 2005. ... Read more →

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