Gas flaring: a review focused on its analysis from space

M Faruolo, A Caseiro, T Lacava… - IEEE geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article represents the current state of the art in analyzing gas flaring (GF) from space.
GF is a prominent source of air pollution, with significant global and local impacts. Its …

Severe atmospheric pollution in the Middle East is attributable to anthropogenic sources

S Osipov, S Chowdhury, JN Crowley, I Tadic… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract In the Middle East, desert dust is assumed to dominate air pollution, being in
permanent violation of public health guidelines. Here we present ship-borne measurements …

Measuring gas flaring in russia with multispectral VIIRS nightfire

M Zhizhin, A Matveev, T Ghosh, FC Hsu, M Howells… - Remote Sensing, 2021 - mdpi.com
According to the data reported by the international and governmental agencies, the Russian
Federation remains one of the world's major associated petroleum gas (APG) flaring nations …

A tailored approach for the global gas flaring investigation by means of daytime satellite imagery

M Faruolo, N Genzano, F Marchese, N Pergola - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The Daytime Approach for gas Flaring Investigation (DAFI), running in Google Earth Engine
(GEE) environment, exploits a Normalized Hotspot Index (NHI), analyzing near-infrared and …

[HTML][HTML] Black carbon emissions from flaring in Russia in the period 2012–2017

K Böttcher, VV Paunu, K Kupiainen, M Zhizhin… - Atmospheric …, 2021 - Elsevier
Gas flaring in the oil and gas industry has been identified as an important source of
anthropogenic black carbon (BC) affecting the climate, particularly in the Arctic. Our study …

Global declines of offshore gas flaring inadequate to meet the 2030 goal

Y Liu, Y Pu, X Hu, Y Dong, W Wu, C Hu, Y Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Monitoring of gas flaring (GF)—the burning of natural gas associated with oil extraction—
over most oil-and gas-producing areas is challenging due to high costs or difficult field …

Environmental Influence of Gas Flaring: Perspective from the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

KE Ukhurebor, UO Aigbe, RB Onyancha, H Athar… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Gas flaring (GasF) is an important aspect of the combustion mechanisms in the burning of
related, undesirable, or surplus fluids (gases in particular) that are released during the …

The Red Sea Deep Water is a potent source of atmospheric ethane and propane

E Bourtsoukidis, A Pozzer, T Sattler… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Non-methane hydrocarbons (NMHCs) such as ethane and propane are significant
atmospheric pollutants and precursors of tropospheric ozone, while the Middle East is a …

Unburnable and unleakable carbon in western amazon: using VIIRS Nightfire data to map gas flaring and policy compliance in the Yasuní Biosphere Reserve

F Facchinelli, SE Pappalardo, D Codato, A Diantini… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
In the Amazon Rainforest, a unique post-carbon plan to mitigate global warming and to
protect the exceptional bio-cultural diversity was experimented in 2007–2013 by the …

Global PM2. 5 and secondary organic aerosols (SOA) levels with sectorial contribution to anthropogenic and biogenic SOA formation

S Azmi, M Sharma - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
This study estimates global PM 2.5 and anthropogenic and biogenic Secondary Organic
Aerosols (a-SOA and b-SOA) and sources contributing to their formation. The global …