OREANDA-NEWS. August 24, 2010.  The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) worked out primary plan of actions within the Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) supported by the World Bank Group (WBG).

Primary  version of the “Plan of reduction of emissions and burning of associated gas” is prepared by the Ecological Administration  of the company, SOCAR informed.

“It is planned to present and discuss the document in a building of Ecological Monitoring Department of the  SOCAR Ecological Administration (Balakhani settlement, City avenue, 13) on August 30,” it was informed.

The event will attended by the representatives of SOCAR,  its production association Azneft, operational companies and JVs.

Earlier, it was planned to implement action plan on reduction of emissions of associated gas, which was undergone expertise in the World Bank (WB), in the first quarter of 2010. This year SOCAR planned to reduce  gas flaring in equivalent of 450,000 tons of CO2 emissions

Relevant work is carried out in two directions – collection, utilization and use of associated gas and reduction of gas flaring.

Work was started in 2005 and obtained gas flaring reduction in 2006-9 by 445,000 tons of CO2 emissions at Gunashli field and 160,000 tons at Neft Dashlari field.