Oil Fields Venezuela, January 2005

Gas Flare at INEMAKA's Kaki oil field. This is a photograph of a gas flare at an oil well managed by INEMAKA. Whenever oil is pumped, natural gas is also extracted. Most facilities in Venezuela do not have the capacity to compress this gas, instead, they burn it. The equivalent of two thousand barrels of oil a day are flared at this field because Petroleos de Venezuela (PdVSA) has not developed the proper facilities to compress and liquify the gas that is associated with oil production.