The InfoShop, Oil, Gas, Mining and Chemicals Department, Sustainable Development
Network,
Africa Region External Affairs Department, and Global Gas Flaring Reduction
Partnership
cordially invite you to the screening of a TVE/BBC documentary on gas flaring,
featuring Nigeria and Russia
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| (Embedded image moved | film screening |
| to file: | Billion Dollar Bonfire |
| pic03396.jpg) | The flaring and venting of Natural Gas is |
| | wasting valuable resources and contributing to |
| 150 billion cubic | climate change. |
| meters of gas are | |
| burnt off or 'flared' | The World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction |
| every year - enough | partnership estimates that 150 billion cubic |
| to generate half of | meters of gas are burnt off or 'flared' every |
| the electricity | year - enough to supply the whole of the United |
| currently produced in | States for three months. And the 40 bcm of gas |
| Africa. | burned in Africa annually could generate half of |
| | the electricity currently produced in that |
| | continent. |
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| | Gas flaring and venting also puts about 400 |
| | million tonnes of carbon dioxide into the |
| | atmosphere every year. |
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| | A new programme in TVE's Earth Report series, |
| | which run on BBC World, goes to Russia and |
| | Nigeria to assess the scale of the problem and |
| | to examine possible solutions. |
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| | Billion Dollar Bonfire, TVE's Earth Report |
| | series, which ran on BBC World, was produced |
| | with the support of The World Bank?s Global Gas |
| | Flaring Reduction Partnership. |
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| | A brief discussion following the showing of the |
| | documentary will focus on: |
| | How gas flaring reduction and gas utilization |
| | fit into the new energy matrix |
| | Gas utilization potential contributions to |
| | climate change mitigation and energy security |
| | The World Bank's GGFR role in global gas |
| | flaring reduction |
| | Challenges and opportunities for the period |
| | 2007-2009 |
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| Thursday, August 30, | |
| 2007 | |
| 12:00 - 1:00pm | |
| World Bank J | |
| Building, Auditorium | |
| J1-050 | |
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Introductory Remarks
Kristalina I. Georgieva
Director
Strategy and Operations, and Acting VP
Sustainable Development Network
World Bank
Chair
Somit Varma
Director of Oil, Gas, and Mining
World Bank
Brief Discussion and Q&A
Bent Svensson
Lead Energy Economist and Manager
Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership (GGFR)
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About GGFR
In 2002 the World Bank and the Government of Norway started the
Global Gas Flaring Reduction (GGFR) initiative, which now has 12
country partners and 10 industrial partners, including the world?s
largest petroleum companies. GGFR?s main goal is to bring all major
stakeholders around the table so that they can together reduce the
barriers to eliminate gas flaring to minimum levels. These main
barriers include lack of an effective regulatory framework for
associated gas utilization, lack of markets and lack of
infrastructure to take the gas to those markets.
About the InfoShop
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