A review of Gas flaring activities in Niger Delta Area of Nigeria was carefully studied
for period of 24 years. Result of the study suggest that while the people of the Niger Delta region may
have benefited from oil and gas exploration, the adverse economic, environmental health, social
urbanization impacts of the operations out weight the benefits. Oil and gas exploration and exploitation
is one of the major reasons the atmosphere, land and sea as well as life’s and plant therein are clearly
being disturb. The data for the area (70,000Km2
) and population were collected from National
population commission (NPC 2006) that of temperature records from 1989-20012 (Niger Delta Region)
were collected from Nigeria Meteorological Agency (NIMET) data for gas production, utilization total
flares, export and domestic consumption in barrels were collected from petroleum corporation (NNPC).
Base on the data, descriptive analysis, multiple bar chart, pie chart, histogram and trend analysis
{analysis of variance-SPSS) was used to show the grow and decline of oil spillage in Niger Delta with a
high standard error 293.567. The trend analysis shows the equation y = 492x – 2061 and the correlation
of R2
= 0.131. The bar chart in fig. 3 recorded Nigeria as the highest in flaring of gas production among
the comparism countries indicated in table 3.The results revealed that environmental pollution due to
heat radiation from gas flaring stations in the Niger-Delta area of Nigeria has been identified as one of the major causes of temperature change which lead to an increase in the effective temperature of the
Earth. Advice on how Nigeria (Niger Delta will reduce gas flaring is included).