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Global gas flaring rising twice as fast as oil production, World Bank says
Global gas flaring increased for the third consecutive year in 2025, reaching 167 billion cubic metres (bcm), according to the latest Global Gas Flaring Tracker released by the World Bank Group.
Market outlook: AI infrastructure is an energy decision before it is a technology decision
The energy industry has spent the past 18 months revisiting its own textbook on security. Closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the rerouting of tanker traffic around the Cape of Good Hope, sustained pressure on LNG flows into Asia, and, most recently, the March 2026 strikes on AWS infrastructure in the Gulf have reinstated physical infrastructure, redundancy, and chokepoint exposure to the top of every energy executive's agenda.
