Bredariol: Offshore flare mitigation is essentially limited to LNG
Tomas de Oliveira Bredariol · Why are we still flaring gas? · Aug 29, 2024 · at 25:29
IEA analyst Tomas de Oliveira Bredariol discusses the technical and spatial constraints of deploying decentralized flare-capture equipment on offshore oil platforms.
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“All of those options are more on the table for onshore. Maybe offshore you can do LNG, but otherwise all of those options are kind of off the table.”
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