INTRODUCTION
From regularly updated records, Nigeria is endowed with abundant
gas wealth which remains largely untapped. According to the
Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Nigeria's proven
natural gas reserve as at June, 2020 is 203.16 Trillion Cubic
Feet.1 The above figure, as stated by
DPR, marks a marginal increase of 1.16 Trillion Cubic Feet in
proven natural gas reserves representing 0.57 percentage growth
from the previous 202 Trillion Cubic Feet recorded in January 1,
2019.2 This abundant gas reserve has
earned Nigeria the appellation of "a gas province with
some oil in it."3
Ironically however, petroleum operations in Nigeria concentrate
on oil extraction, while gas is virtually treated as a distraction.
The larger volume of the gas encountered by the upstream oil
companies, is flared by a process of burning into the atmosphere.
Several measures initiated to curb gas flaring, in the mode of
regulation and penalization have proved mostly weak and
