Nigeria flares more gas than almost any country on earth. In 2024 our flaring rose 12 percent, the second largest increase in the world. The gas we burn off is gas we could have used. It is lost revenue, lost electricity, and emissions we will account for long after the flare goes out.
The number is public. What is not public is the record.
Every year, satellites quietly photograph the heat of every flare in the Niger Delta. The World Bank publishes the volumes those satellites imply. The regulator publishes the rule that sets a price on flaring. All of it exists. None of it sits in one place, attributed to an operator, with the working shown, where anyone can check it.
So we built the page.
The gap is not data. It is a record.
There is no shortage of methane monitoring. Satellite companies sell it. Consultancies package it. Regulators receive it. What is missing is a neutral, public, site level verdict that a person can open, read, cite, and argue with.
That distinction matters. Monitoring sold to an operator is evidence the operator owns. A public ledger is evidence anyone can use, including the people the operator would rather not.
We are not claiming to out-measure anyone. We are claiming something narrower and more useful: that the same open data everyone already trusts can be assembled, attributed, and shown, in the open, without anyone’s permission.
Why open data, specifically
Every source behind this page can be downloaded by anyone, and none of them can be withdrawn.
That is the entire point. A ledger built on a commercial feed dies the day the subscription lapses, or the day it becomes inconvenient. A ledger built on satellite data published by the World Bank, on boundary data published under a Creative Commons licence, and on a regulation printed in the Federal Gazette, cannot be switched off.
We think a public record should not depend on our continued enthusiasm. So we built it so it does not.
What we refuse to do
We refuse to pretend to a precision we do not have.
Satellites measure the heat of a flare. Turning heat into a volume is a calibration, and every calibration carries error. So every record on this page carries its detection floor (what we can and cannot see) and its confidence (how well evidenced that particular figure is).
We refuse to be an authority. This page is a derived, open data estimate. It is not a determination by the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, and it is not endorsed by any operator. Where the regulation sets different rates for different producers, we say so, and we show which figure we used and why.
And we refuse to claim we catch everything. Tests of satellite detection, run blind, show that nobody does. A ledger that claims perfect vision is not a ledger. It is marketing.
Who this is for
Operators. Forty of you appear on this page. Some are improving and should be able to prove it. Some are not and should be able to see it before anyone else does. The ranking is public either way, so the useful question is what you do next, not whether the number is coming.
Regulators. The Flare Gas Regulations 2018 put a price on flaring. Enforcement needs a defensible basis. An independent ledger is not a substitute for your records. It is a check on them, which is a different and healthier thing.
Buyers of Nigerian oil and gas. Europe is closing its market to high intensity molecules. The EU Methane Regulation requires importers to report the methane intensity of what they buy, and from 2030 to keep it below a maximum. Supplier level intensity is becoming a condition of market access. This page is the first public place to look.
Lenders, insurers and investors. Financed emissions and asset level transition risk are becoming ordinary diligence. Here is the asset level data, on the same open terms for you as for everyone else.
Nigerians. You have been told for decades that the gas burning over your communities is someone else’s business. It is your resource. It is your air. The record should be yours too.
The larger point
The gas Nigeria flared in 2025 was worth billions of dollars. It is more gas than many countries consume in a year. It was burned while hundreds of millions of people across Africa still lack reliable electricity.
That is the whole argument, and it does not need embellishment. Flaring is not an act of God. It is a decision, made by people, at named sites, every night. Decisions can be changed when they are visible.
This page exists to make them visible.
The honest position
We are showing our working. The method is published on this site. The sources are listed, with their licences. Every figure can be traced to its origin. Where we are uncertain, we say so, because a ledger that hides its uncertainty is not worth the trust it is asking for.
We would rather be accurately modest than impressively wrong.
Kaliabe builds open, verifiable infrastructure for the energy transition, starting with the Niger Delta.
- Read the method: Methodology
- See the sources: Data and licences
- Use the record: The Ledger