NORWAY-MEXICO ANTI-FLARING SCHEME GETS UN APPROVAL
March 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A JOINT initiative on reducing oilfield gas flaring, involving Mexico's Pemex and Norway's Statoil, has become the first Mexican project of its type to be registered under the UN's clean development mechanism. The project will pipe currently-flared gas from the Tres Hermanos field to a processing and treatment plant then distribute it to local markets.
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A JOINT initiative on reducing oilfield gas flaring, involving Mexico's Pemex and Norway's Statoil, has become the first Mexican project of its type to be registered under the UN's clean development mechanism. The project will pipe currently-flared gas from the Tres Hermanos field to a processing and treatment plant then distribute it to local markets.
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