International Oil Companies (IOCs) and their local counterparts have burnt $787.7 million worth of Nigerian gas from different oilfields in the country’s Niger Delta. Through Gas flaring in Nigeria’s oil fields, the companies burnt 225.1 billion standard cubic feet of gas, (bscf) between January and July 2020, checks by Platforms Africa showed. The monetary value of the burnt gas in the international market is $787.7 million (about N299.33 billion). This is a surge from the data of flare given by National Environmental Economic and Development Study, NEEDS, which reads that…
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