GFMR Annual Progress Report 2025

Transforming Oil and Gas Operations to Curb Flaring and Methane emissions

The Global Flaring and Methane Reduction (GFMR) Partnership's first Annual Progress Report highlights how, in just one year, the Partnership has transitioned from inception to impact, supporting projects in 17 countries that collectively account for over a quarter of global methane emissions from oil and gas operations and nearly two-fifths of global flaring.

GFMR’s early achievements demonstrate that governments and state-owned operators are actively seeking support to establish emissions baselines, design leak detection and repair programs, and implement flaring abatement projects that can attract further investment. Several countries are already planning to scale up and replicate successful initiatives.

GFMR is moving projects from diagnostics to design and implementation:

• In Africa, GFMR began working with Nigeria’s regulator to establish a methane emissions baseline and provide targeted training to strengthen monitoring and reporting capacity.
• In Latin America, support was provided to Brazil’s regulator to develop methane regulations and leak detection capabilities, while in Mexico GFMR worked with Pemex to expand leak detection and repair capacity and identify abatement opportunities.
• In East Asia, GFMR partnered with Indonesia’s Pertamina on a flaring and methane reduction roadmap and initiated discussions with PetroVietnam on abatement.
• In Europe and Central Asia, GFMR advanced leak detection in Uzbekistan, achieving early success with the abatement of 16,000 tonnes of methane emissions per year from a compressor station in Gazli. Meanwhile, the team is preparing grant support for gas leak repair by state-owned operators in Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan. GFMR is also supporting the governments of Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan with the development of national measurement, monitoring, reporting, and verification systems for methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.

• In the Middle East and North Africa, GFMR supported Iraq with a sector-wide abatement effort, helped Egypt identify and prioritize projects for grant funding, and engaged with Libya and Algeria to identify abatement projects. Despite security challenges, discussions in Yemen progressed on flare-gas-to-power projects.
• In South Asia, GFMR worked with Petrobangla and the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on monitoring and leak detection and repair, supported the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation in India with facility-level inventories, and began preparing Pakistan’s first national methane emissions inventory for the oil and gas sector.

The benefits of reducing flaring and methane emissions are far-reaching. Beyond lowering greenhouse gas emissions from oil and gas operations, flaring and methane reduction can unlock new revenue streams for governments, and boost energy access and security—especially vital as developing countries struggle to meet rising energy demand.

As we look ahead, GFMR is poised to scale its impact—expanding catalytic grant funding, technical assistance, and knowledge sharing to turn global pledges into concrete results.

About GFMR

GFMR is supported by several governments and international energy companies, including Germany, Norway, the United Arab Emirates, the United States, bp, Eni, Equinor, Occidental (Oxy), Shell, and TotalEnergies.

Launched to help developing countries capture these benefits, GFMR brings together governments, corporate partners, and technical experts to tackle the economic, resource management, and climate dimensions of flaring and methane emissions.