据8月30日The Punch报，今年1月至5月，因为燃除了909亿立方英尺的天然气，尼日利亚联邦政府和该国的石油公司预计损失了871.6亿奈拉。
根据尼日利亚国家石油公司（Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation）获得的数据，石油公司在1月份浪费了199.5亿立方英尺的天然气，2月份为182.7亿立方英尺，3月份为197.1亿立方英尺，4月份为170.9亿立方英尺， 5月份为150.7亿立方英尺。
截至周一，天然气的价格为每1000立方英尺2.53美元，909亿立方英尺的燃除意味着将损失2.2998亿美元或871.6亿奈拉。
NNPC表示，今年5月，国内市场供气总量为13亿立方英尺/天，出口市场供气总量为33.3亿立方英尺/天。这意味着，每天生产的天然气中，有61.97%用于商业用途，其余38.03%用于重新注入用作上游燃料气或燃除。本月，气体燃除率为6.50%，即4.8619亿立方英尺。”
公司表示，在五月份供应给本地市场每天的13亿立方英尺中，约有8.3395亿立方英尺/天，即64%供应给燃气发电厂，其余的4.6915亿立方英尺/天，即36%的供应给了其他行业。
PUNCH曾在5月份报告称，尼日利亚联邦政府表示，今年该国石油和天然气公司支付的天然气燃除罚款将增加到1035.1亿奈拉。联合会预算办公室主任本·阿卡布泽表示，政府将加紧执行2018年修订的燃气燃除罚款支付制度(导致2020年燃气燃除罚款从447亿奈拉上调至1035.1亿奈拉)。
根据修订后的天然气燃除支付制度，每天生产1万桶或以上石油的公司将支付每1000立方英尺天然气2美元的费用，而过去为每1000立方英尺10奈拉。石油日产量低于1万桶的公司将支付每1000 立方英尺0.5美元的燃除费用。
尼日利亚国家石油公司于2016年10月获得批准，旨在实施政府的政策目标，在未来两到三年内消除尼日利亚油气田的气体燃烧量，这将为尼日利亚带来巨大的乘数效应和发展成果。
王佳晶 摘译自 The Punch
原文如下：
FG, oil companies lose N87.16bn to gas flaring
The Federal Government and oil companies in the country lost an estimated N87.16bn from January to May this year as a total of 90.9 billion standard cubic feet of natural gas was flared.
The oil companies wasted 19.95 billion scf of gas in January; 18.27 billion scf in February; 19.71 billion scf in March; 17.90 billion scf in April, and 15.07 billion scf in May, according to data obtained from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
With the price of natural gas put at $2.53 per 1,000scf as of Monday, the 90.9 billion scf flared translates to an estimated loss of $229.98m or N87.16bn (using the official exchange rate of N379/dollar).
The NNPC said a total of 1.30 billion scf per day of gas was supplied to the domestic market and 3.33 billion scfd was supplied to the export market in May.
“This implies that 61.97 per cent of the average daily gas produced was commercialised while the balance of 38.03 per cent was re-injected, used as upstream fuel gas or flared. Gas flare rate was 6.50 per cent for the month under review i.e. 486.19 million scfd,” it said.
The corporation said out of the 1.30 billion scfd of gas supplied to the domestic market in May, about 833.95 million scfd, representing 64 per cent was supplied to gas-fired power plants while the balance of 469.15 million scfd or 36 per cent was supplied to other industries.
The PUNCH had reported in May that the Federal Government said gas flare penalty payment by oil and gas companies in the country would increase to N103.51bn this year.
The Director-General, Budget Office of the Federation, Ben Akabueze, said the government would “tighten implementation of the 2018 revised gas flare penalty payment regime (resulting in upward revision of gas flare penalty for 2020 from N44.7bn to N103.51bn)”.
According to the revised payment regime for gas flaring, oil firms producing 10,000 barrels of oil or more per day will pay $2 per 1,000 standard cubic feet of gas, compared to N10 per 1,000 scf in the past.
Firms producing less than 10,000 barrels of oil per day will pay a gas flare penalty of $0.5 per 1,000 scf.
Approved in October 2016, the NGFCP was designed as the strategy to implement the policy objectives of the government for the elimination of gas flares from Nigeria’s oil and gas fields in the near term of between two and three years, with potentially enormous multiplier and development outcomes for Nigeria.