World Bank, Global Flaring and Methane Reduction Partnership, 'Global Gas Flaring Tracker Report', June 2026 edition, 34 pages, prepared with the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines
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SRC-380
Citation
World Bank, Global Flaring and Methane Reduction Partnership, 'Global Gas Flaring Tracker Report', June 2026 edition, 34 pages, prepared with the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines
Official publication of an international financial institution
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Published
2026-06-23
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2026-08-23
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Claims
CH9 flaring volumes, flaring intensity and the comparative ranking
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READ_IN_PART
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THE LARGEST SINGLE GAP IN THE CHAPTER 9 EVIDENCE BASE, AND IT IS NOW HELD. The completeness critic established on 23 August 2026 that six figures, one verbatim World Bank quotation and one comparative ranking in the flaring passage rested on a publication NOBODY HAD RETRIEVED: no file with 'flar' or 'ggfr' in its name existed anywhere in research/, and the only file carrying 54,200, 75,200 and 'flaring intensity' together was this project's own derived figure inventory, quoting the manuscript back to itself. WHAT IS ESTABLISHED SO FAR, and it is deliberately little. Syria is named on pages 6, 9, 10, 18, 19 and 21. Page 19 records that from 2024 to 2025 'Syria and Uzbekistan stand out' for declines in flaring intensity, referring to its figure 16. Page 21 records that 'Argentina, India, and Syria also experienced drops' and attributes Syria's to improved stability. Page 18 discusses countries affected by conflict and instability including Syria. READ AT THE RENDERED PAGES 24 AUGUST 2026, pages 18, 19 and 21 at 200 dpi. PAGE 18, VERBATIM: 'Flaring intensity continues to be highest in countries affected by conflict and instability, such as Syria and Venezuela, although both countries saw flaring intensity declines in 2025 (figure 14).' PAGE 19, VERBATIM: 'Considering the change in flaring intensity from 2024 to 2025, Syria and Uzbekistan stand out for their declines in flaring intensity (figure 16). In Syria the decline was driven by growing oil production; while in Uzbekistan it was tied to reductions in what were already modest flaring volumes.' FIGURE 15 GIVES SYRIA -0.11 bcm as its change in flare volume 2024 to 2025; FIGURE 16 GIVES SYRIA -14.4 cubic metres per barrel as its change in flaring intensity, the largest decline of any country shown; FIGURE 14's Syria bars run at roughly 27, 21, 24, 37 and 23 for 2021 to 2025. WHAT THIS SETTLES: the manuscript's verbatim quotation 'was driven by growing oil production' is exact; the Venezuela pairing is the tracker's own and is a named category rather than a rank; and the manuscript's 22.87 against 37.32 implies a fall of 14.45 which matches Figure 16's -14.4. WHAT IT BREAKS: the manuscript states 0.74 bcm for 2024 and 0.63 for 2025, which differ by 0.11 and match Figure 15, AND SEPARATELY STATES THE DECLINE AS 0.08, which contradicts its own two figures as well as the document. STILL OWED: the exact volume levels, which are chart bars here and are published in the Bank's separate global flaring data tables, NOT RETRIEVED and an executable route; and the production series, where two publications give 63,000 barrels a day for 2024 against the 54,200 the manuscript's ratio uses. WHAT MUST BE CHECKED FIRST WHEN IT IS: the manuscript's 0.63 and 0.74 billion cubic metres, its flaring intensity of 22.87 cubic metres per barrel against 37.32, its global average of 5.1, its 0.08 bcm decline, its production series of 54,200 rising to 75,200 barrels a day, the verbatim quotation 'was driven by growing oil production', and the ranking of Syria alongside Venezuela. AND THE PRODUCTION CONFLICT MUST BE SETTLED: the manuscript attributes 54,200 barrels a day for 2024 to the World Bank, while the World Bank's June 2025 macro-fiscal assessment puts national crude at 63,000 barrels a day for the same year, a difference of 16 per cent, and the flaring ratio is built on the figure with no document behind it.