After glitches during production startup saw flaring of over 2 billion cubic feet of natural gas, ExxonMobil has assured that it will from this week begin transitioning to using the gas for well injection purposes, Head of the Environment Protection Agency Dr Vincent Adams says.
“Now that they [ExxonMobil] have learned and redesigned equipment, we do have a high degree of confidence that we won’t have this prolonged flaring,” Adams told the Sunday Stabroek last week when contacted for an update.
“We have this commitment from the company; transitioning from total flaring to zero should be accomplished by this week,” he added. Flaring is not environmentally friendly and the gas could be put to other uses.
