NIOC Gas Flaring Underway 

The National Iranian Oil Company is implementing plans to reduce gas flaring in various oil and gas fields, the director of NIOC’s Health, Safety and Environment Department said.
“With the efforts made in the past few years, the number of gas flares has been lowered from 1,700 to 675 at present,” Abbas Razmi was also quoted as saying by IRNA. 
The operation of new fields is good news, as they add to the country’s oil and gas production capacity, but the gas flares should be controlled or they will pollute the region with their emissions, he added.
Although difficult, it is possible to collect the associated petroleum gases (APG) burned at the flares and make better use of them.