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SRC-384

World Bank, Global Flaring and Methane Reduction Partnership, 'Flare volume and intensity estimates 2012-2025', country dataset accompanying the June 2026 Global Gas Flaring Tracker Report, three sheets: Flare volume, Flaring intensity, Oil production

Source ID: SRC-384
Citation: World Bank, Global Flaring and Methane Reduction Partnership, 'Flare volume and intensity estimates 2012-2025', country dataset accompanying the June 2026 Global Gas Flaring Tracker Report, three sheets: Flare volume, Flaring intensity, Oil production
URL or path: https://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/gasflaringreduction/global-flaring-data; https://thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/b34e0c054bb3fe3695e70154c28eef3f-0400072026/related/Flare-volume-and-intensity-estimates-2012-2025.xlsx; research/CH9_FLARE_WB_flare_volume_intensity_2012_2025.xlsx
Type: Official dataset of an international financial institution
Hierarchy tier: 1
Published: 2026-06
Accessed: 2026-08-24
Snapshot: XLSX retrieved 24 August 2026, 78,034 bytes, three sheets of 105, 105 and 99 rows; read with openpyxl, values only
Claims: CH9 flaring volumes, flaring intensity and the production denominator; OILPROD-001
Status: READ_IN_PART

Version history

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RETRIEVED TO CLOSE THE BAR AT MIN-786 AND IT OVERTURNED A RECORD OF THIS PROJECT'S OWN. SYRIA'S ROWS, VERBATIM FROM THE THREE SHEETS. Flare volume in bcm: 2024 0.73763427274849, 2025 0.62810902885103. Flaring intensity in cubic metres per barrel: 2024 37.3186270718587, 2025 22.8694348753334. Oil production in thousand barrels a day: 2024 54.1530054644808, 2025 75.2465753424657. EVERY FIGURE IN THE MANUSCRIPT'S FLARING CLUSTER IS EXACT AGAINST THIS DATASET: 0.74 and 0.63, 37.32 and 22.87, and 54,200 and 75,200 to the nearest hundred. THE 54,200 IS THE WORLD BANK'S OWN FIGURE and the manuscript's attribution is correct; three records of this project said no retrieved document carried it and all three are corrected. THE DISCREPANCY IS INSIDE THE WORLD BANK AND IS THE BETTER FINDING: this dataset gives Syrian 2024 crude production as 54,153 barrels a day, and the Bank's own June 2025 macro-fiscal assessment gives 63,000, which is also what the Oil and Gas Journal gives independently. One institution, two series, a 16 per cent difference, and the flaring intensity the Bank publishes is computed on the lower one. THE ONE DEFECT IN THE MANUSCRIPT STANDS: it states the volume decline as 0.08, and 0.73763 less 0.62811 is 0.1095, which the report's Figure 15 prints as -0.11. THE SERIES ALSO SHOWS WHAT THE CHAPTER MAY NOT SAY: Syrian flaring intensity ran 8.4, 16.2, 29.0, 47.8, 81.8 and 215.5 across 2012 to 2017 before falling back, so a two-year comparison of 2024 against 2025 sits inside a series that has moved by a factor of twenty-five, and the 2017 value of 215.5 is not an outlier to be dropped silently. NOT READ: the other 104 country rows, the individual flare-location dataset, and the 2012-2024 edition of the same tables, which would show whether these values are themselves revised between editions.