Honest projection · estimated
Gas Flared Today (est.)
A projection of how much natural gas the world has flared — burned off and wasted — since midnight UTC, ticking at the most recent annual total spread evenly across the year. When oil is pumped, gas often comes up with it; where there is no pipeline to capture it, it is simply set alight. In 2025 the world flared 167 billion cubic metres this way — roughly all of Africa’s annual gas use, about $63 billion of energy burned for nothing, while half a billion people still lack reliable electricity. The oil and gas fields it escapes from are one tap away in Grid.
About this number
This is an honest projection, not a census. It is computed by carrying a published figure forward at a known rate over real elapsed time — ≈ 5,294 m³/sec (pure waste), from World Bank Global Gas Flaring Tracker (June 2026) — 167 billion m³ of gas flared worldwide in 2025, spread evenly across the year. The source is World Bank Global Gas Flaring Tracker 2026. The true value is known only to within a margin; this is the running estimate, and we label it as one.