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Business entities engaged in oil and gas production activities, especially in the oil and gas upstream activities, have the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions flare (flare gas fuels) by 30-60% per year in developing environmentally friendly oil and gas industry.

As offered by the site lemigas, Director of engineering and MINERAL RESOURCES and oil and gas Environment Suyartono in his book “the Environmental Safety of oil and gas”, flare gas reduction policy of 30-60% per year is an attempt to achieve zero flare in 2012 in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and has been ratified by Indonesia through Act No. 17 of 2004.

Related to this, the program zero flare up  in collaboration with the World Bank has conducted an inventory of the amount of flare gas fuels (gas flare) and CO2 venting (individual-clusters and possible today) generated by a business entity in the business activities of oil and gas.

“A study that aims to identify the potential for CO2 reduction in flaring activities and enhance national capacity and venting with improvements to the system of collecting and reporting data related to the operation of upstream natural gas in Indonesia,” he explained.

One of the implementation of policies to achieve those goals were minimize waste disposal membrane to the environment by way of doing reindeer to membrane well. This has already started to do in some of the oil and gas, including LNG project.

Flare system is the installation of which must be in every oil and gas industry. The process involves a dangerous gas and flammable gases so as to trigger the crash. Flare system is a protection system of gas comes out of the system process by means of burning gas that comes out before entering the atmosphere.

However, burning of flare system turned out to be one of the causes of global warming so that combustion is to be reduced.

In 2008, the volume of a gas flare Indonesia around 113 MMSCFD. Of that amount, approximately 109 UNIT came from oil and gas upstream activities and the rest of the downstream oil and gas activities. While according to the World Bank, in 2007 Indonesia have burned approximately 215 MMSCF and was eighth in the world 13. The burning of Indonesia, adding to about 12 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and dispose of more than US $ 400 million each year.

Gas flares can also be utilized to meet energy needs. Head of BPMIGAS r. Priyono some time ago expressed, during the semester 1 2009 BPMIGAS managed to facilitate the signing and selling gas flares burn at some places. Among other things, the Field is given the total volume of the Sukowati BSCF with value by 35.7 per total sales of US $ 71.4 million over 6 years.

In addition, sales of gas flares burn was signed from the field in Papua of 17.5 Matoa BSCF with a total value of sales of US $ 25.9 million over 10 years.