Americans use twice the world average — 2,842
cubic meters annually, which is more than an Olympic - sized swimming pool for every single person.
Estimates produced for about 60 countries around the world revealed that gas flaring has remained largely stable over the last 12 years — in the range of 150 - 170 billion
cubic meters annually — although 22 mostly lesser developed countries increased its use over that period (on the other hand, 16 other countries decreased its use).
The Chinese, to compare, use 700
cubic meters annually.
Not exact matches
The agreement calls for Russian government - controlled Gazprom to supply state - owned China National Petroleum Corp. with 38 billion
cubic meters of gas
annually, Gazprom spokesman Sergey Kupriyanov told The Associated Press.
And since 2004 oil giant BP and its partners (including Statoil) in the In Salah gas field in Algeria have been stripping the nine billion
cubic meters of natural gas produced there
annually of the 10 percent carbon dioxide it contains and pumping a million metric tons of liquid CO2 back into the underlying saline aquifer through three additional wells.
As part of the largest investment in coal - fueled synthetic natural gas plants in history, the central Chinese government recently has approved construction of nine large - scale plants capable of producing more than 37 billion
cubic meters of synthetic natural gas
annually.
And the central government has set targets in its current five - year plan of 6.5 billion
cubic meters of shale gas to be produced
annually by 2015, jumping to at least 60 billion
cubic meters per year by 2020.
The 700,000
cubic meters of wastewater created
annually by Syria's 920 processing mills is often discarded by being pumped out, untreated, onto the land near the facilities.
According to the World Bank's Global Gas Flaring Reduction Program «150 billion
cubic meters (or 5.3 trillion
cubic feet) of natural gas are being flared and vented
annually.»