The Middle East is making progress in cutting natural gas flaring even as the wider region including North Africa, as well as the US, is showing no sign of a reduction, wasting billions of dollars in lost revenue if the gas was used. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Saudi Arabia’s gas flaring has dropped 37% in the past three years, while Iran’s is down 29% and Qatar cut flaring by 12%, figures from London-based FGE show. Factors contributing to the drop are OPEC+ output cuts, which reduced associated gas production, US sanctions, which curbed Iran’s crude output, and improved management in gathering flaring gas for re-injection into oil fields such as in Oman, Siamak Adibi, head of the […]