Gas Flaring Charges In Nigeria

Due to the incessant flaring of gas in Nigeria, the Federal Government have taken the initiative to prohibit such actions and ensure the utilization of gas flared within the country by oil and gas companies.

To this end, in 1979 the then military regime promulgated the Associated Gas Re-Injection Amendment Decree 99 of 1979 to compel oil and gas producing companies to submit proposals for the utilization of Associated Gas in their operating areas and stop gas flaring, except by express permission of the Minister. Where gas is flared without obtaining the permission of the Minister in writing it amounts to an offence resulting in the forfeiture of concessions granted in relation to the field(s) or fields in connection to which the offence was committed. The Minister may grant permission if satisfied that gas re-injection is not feasible, by the issuance of a certificate which permits a company engaged in the production of oil or gas to continue to flare gas upon the