Nigerian Gas Flare Tracker
Satellite gas flare tracking from 
Nigerian Gas Flare Tracker
Satellite gas flare tracking from
Million tonnes of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere contributing to global warming
Useful natural gas valued at
$Billion was burned by the Nigerian oil and gas industry
Equivalent to fines at the value of
$Million, many of which are not collected
Thousand GigaWatt hours of potential power generation went to waste
Eqivalent to the annual electricity use of
Million Nigerian citizens
The volumes and quantities of gas flaring displayed on this website, and the companies these are assigned to, are estimates based on available data and should be seen as indicative and not empirical.
No party involved with any data available on this website takes any responsibility for the accuracy of the information made available or the use of that information by any other third party.
Parties wishing to disclaim or contest the information displayed are invited to provide their own alternative data to NOSDRA.
© All photos Copyright Ed Kashi 2014.
This product was made utilizing VIIRS Nightfire (VNF) nightly data produced by the Earth Observation Group, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines.
This initiative is managed by NOSDRA. It was created by Stakeholder Democracy Network with geospatial analysis by WebGeospatial and software development by Sentido-labs.
