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Flaring is a process or industrial activity, especially the petrochemical and oil and gas, which can not be avoided bigger problem occurs if the operation is done incorrectly flaring that will produce methane and other volatile organic compounds, sulfur dioxide and its derivatives are known to exacerbate respiratory problems. Not including aromatic hydrocarbons (benzene, toluene, xylene) and benzapyrene carcinogenic.

Gas Flaring

But this is a form of 'arrogance' people who are able to dig down to the foundations of the earth. Search, find, and sucking fossil hydrocarbons to the surface. Of hydrocarbons are also many sectors of the economy moving, the life of a number of groups to prosper immediately, degrees and pride of the children of men rose up into the sky. Hydrocarbons sort of become a double-edged dagger, prosperity and impoverish, moving the country's economy and slowly destroy the earth.
Any such burning his form and any burnt or for any purpose, as it is written in the first paragraph of this article, releasing carbon dioxide and other volatile compounds into the Earth's atmosphere.
Flaring Canaport LNG, Canada on 13 September 2013 has killed nearly 7500 migrant birds (read: Canaport LNG Bird Kill Case adjourned Without Pleas Again). The migratory birds usually move from north to south during the winter in the north. The heat of the fire flaring lure these birds to come close to the flare stack owned Canaport LNG.
Moths (moths) are animals that always attracted by light and warm temperatures. A brochure published by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity to explain the circumstances in which: "Expert taxonomic work in tropical forests found that flaring in oil refinery operations has captured and killed hundreds of moths. After more than many years of refinery operates a number of large moth population has definitely been killed, which means that many of the plant or plants could not be pollinated in large forest areas.

This of course does not include emissions resulting from flaring. As we already know if a lot of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane is the main component in natural gas content and also known the two compounds are greenhouse gases responsible for global warming.
Atmosferic carbon dioxide (CO2) generated from both natural and human activities (anthropogenic). Human activities that contribute substantially increase emissions of CO2 is the burning / consumption of fossil fuels. Chart below describes the contribution of each activity to the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

Human activity contributes Against Carbon Dioxide Emissions, 1994

Until the end of 2011, 150 billion cubic meters (equivalent to 5.3 trillion cubic feet) of gas has been burned in a flaring process. This amount is equivalent to 25% of natural gas consumption in the USA per year, equivalent to 30% in the EU. When assessed at the market price then this sum is worth up to $ 29.8 billion (at a price of $ 5.62 per 1,000 cubic feet).
Still at the end of the same year, 10 countries contributed to 72% of the world's total flaring activity. These countries include:
1. Russia (27%)
2. Nigeria (11%)
3. Iran (8%)
4. Iraq (7%)
5. USA (5%)
6. Algeria (4%)
7. Kazakhstan (3%)
8. Angola (3%)
9. Saudi Arabia (3%)
10. Venezuela (3%)
Indonesia until 2012 was ranked 13 world with the largest gas flaring.

Flaring from oil drilling sites is a very significant contributor in increasing global carbon dioxide emissions. Coupled with the burning of fossil fuels and cement production, emissions of carbon dioxide in 2010 reached 3 times (1300 ± 110 tCO2) of emissions the previous period (1750-1970) that is equal to 420 ± 35 tCO2. Every year nearly 2400 million tonnes of carbon dioxide produced from flaring.
The good news is that the satellite image data from 2005 to 2010, gas flaring results globally decreased by approximately 20%. The most significant reduction is done by Asturias (40%), followed by Nigeria (down by 29%). The technology is still being developed to improve the efficiency of flaring. The above graph shows a significant reduction of up to half of the emissions in 1975. While we expect the economy and the ecosystem is able to offset each other.
Thank you for reading this article. Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno. sunarnobambang86@gmail.com
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Published Date: January 7, 2016 at 12:05