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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 9
Iraq Flaring Watch🔥 — interactive map tracking gas flaring,
emission plumes, and gas waste across Iraq.

🟠 Active flare sites
🟣 USD value wasted annually
🔵 Satellite-detected emissions

iraqflaringwatch.com
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Oct 19
Iraq Flaring Watch — built on open data, and giving back to OSM

openstreetmap.org/user/Rawaz/dia…
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Oct 11
چاودێری مەشخەڵی گازەکانی عێراق ئێستا بە زمانی کوردی بەردەستە

@IraqFlaring now supports Sorani Kurdish... we thank
@WeblateOrg for their generous support.

iraqflaringwatch.com/?lang=ckb
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Oct 8
So how many of Iraq's 437 mapped flares are actually burning? 🔥🛰️
Last 12 months of VIIRS satellite data:
🟠 372 (85%) active — seen in the last 30 days
🟡 9 — last seen 1–3 months ago
🔴 22 — last seen 3–12 months ago
⚪️ 34 (8%) — not detected at all this year
Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Oct 8
Major update to Iraq Flaring Watch 🔥🛰️

You can now see, for every gas flare, when it was last detected by satellite and how many times in the past year.

Left: Bazian Refinery — no flaring detected all year.
Right: Bin Omar Gas Field — last seen burning yesterday.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Oct 8
Major update to Iraq Flaring Watch 🔥🛰️

You can now see, for every gas flare, when it was last detected by satellite and how many times in the past year.

Left: Bazian Refinery — no flaring detected all year.
Right: Bin Omar Gas Field — last seen burning yesterday.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Oct 2
Iraq's flaring fell sharply after 2017 — then stalled completely. Five straight years (2021–2025) flat at ~24 BCM, despite every reduction pledge.

Watch Every Gas Flare in Iraq: iraqflaringwatch.com
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Aug 10
The national picture 🔥

Every red square is a fire NASA's VIIRS satellite caught in the last 3 days. Every orange dot is a community-mapped flare. Where they overlap, you're seeing the same wasted gas confirmed by two independent sources.

iraqflaringwatch.com/#6.00/32.46577…
National-scale view of Iraq Flaring Watch showing gas flaring across the entire country on satellite imagery. Dozens of bright red squares are scattered across Iraq marking NASA VIIRS satellite fire detections from the last 3 days, densely concentrated in the northern oil regions around Mosul, Kirkuk and Maysan, and heavily clustered in the southern Basra oil fields near the Kuwait border. Orange dots with numbers indicate clustered community-mapped flare locations from OpenStreetMap.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Aug 10
Major upgrade to Iraq Flaring Watch 🔥

We've added near real-time VIIRS thermal hotspot detections from @NASA as a new map layer — letting anyone independently verify where flaring is happening right now.

Satellite-detected fire, updated every few days:
iraqflaringwatch.com/#16.00/30.8297…
Iraq Flaring Watch web map showing near real-time NASA VIIRS fire detections over an oil facility near Basra, Iraq (coordinates 30.82974, 47.32937). Several bright red squares are scattered across high-resolution satellite imagery, each marking a thermal hotspot detected by satellite within the last 3 days. Storage tanks, flare stacks, and dark scorch marks are visible on the ground beneath the detections. An open popup card titled "VIIRS Fire Detection" shows details for one hotspot: detected 2026-08-09 at 22:31 UTC, confidence Nominal, fire radiative power 8.74 MW, sourced from NASA FIRMS / VIIRS SNPP. The Display Layers panel on the right shows "Live Fire Detections (NASA)" toggled on, with all other layers — Active Flare Locations, Flare Density Map, 5km Impact Zone, Detected Emission Plumes, and Wasted Gas — toggled off. The dark-themed interface header reads "Iraq Flaring Watch" with Background, Layers, Legend, and Guide controls around the map edges.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Aug 8
We have improved our user experience substantially making the satellite background more easy to navigate and including a user guide for first time visitors to be able to reach a wider audience.

iraqflaringwatch.com
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 28
Iraq imported 6 BCM of gas from Iran in 2025 to keep the lights on — while burning 24 BCM into the atmosphere 🔥

That's 4x what it imported, flared and wasted.

Source: @WBG_Energy Global Gas Flaring Tracker 2026

See every flare site in Iraq 👇
iraqflaringwatch.com/#13.00/31.0402…
Iraq Flaring Watch dashboard showing a popup card for West Qurna 2-Yamama oil field. The popup reads: LUKOIL flared 2,755 million m³ of gas in 2025 — capturing it could have generated ~$340.6M USD, enough to power ~2.4M Iraqi homes. The sidebar shows national stats: 417 active flares, 24 fields, ~$2.98B gas value wasted, ~24 BCM annual flaring volume, ~4,241 MW electricity generation potential, and ~5.1 Million Iraqis living within 5km of a flare. Purple economic waste bubbles and a cyan emission plume dot are visible on the OpenStreetMap background near West Qurna, southern Iraq.
World Bank Energy
@WBG_Energy
Jun 24
Global #gasflaring hit 167 billion cubic meters (bcm) in 2025, the highest level since 2019 &the third consecutive annual increase. Oil production grew 3.3%, but flaring grew faster. The trend is moving in the wrong direction, undermining energy security.

wrld.bg/OPYq50Zgh6v
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 28
Replying to @IraqFlaring @WBG_Energy
Source: From page 25 of the annual report:

thedocs.worldbank.org/en/doc/b34e0c0…
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 25
Kirkuk — where Iraq's oil story began over a century ago 🔥 The flares around Baba Gurgur field have burned for decades. The 5km impact zones reach the city, the airport, the villages.

iraqflaringwatch.com/#11.00/35.5107…
OpenStreetMap view of Kirkuk, Iraq showing active gas flare clusters around the Baba Gurgur and Kirkuk oil fields. Red dashed 5km impact circles overlap the city of Kirkuk, its international airport, and surrounding villages. A red-orange heatmap shows high flaring intensity concentrated in the western oil field area. Arabic and Kurdish place names are visible including كركووك (Kirkuk). Cyan emission plume dots are visible near the flare clusters. The map shows the proximity of industrial gas flaring to dense urban settlement.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 25
This is what gas flaring looks like from above in Basra 🔥 Every glowing dot is an active flare. Every red circle is the 5km zone where residents breathe the smoke.

iraqflaringwatch.com/#11.00/30.4181…
OpenStreetMap view of Basra, Iraq at medium zoom showing dozens of overlapping red dashed 5km impact circles around active gas flare markers. The circles cover dense residential neighbourhoods, major roads and urban areas surrounding the city. A heatmap shows high flaring intensity in red and orange concentrated around the Rumaila oil field complex to the west of the city. Cyan emission plume dots and purple economic waste bubbles are visible among the flare clusters. Arabic street and place names are visible throughout.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 13
Every red circle = 5km around an active gas flare 🔥

This is Basra — Iraq's oil capital.

~5.1 Million Iraqis live inside one of these circles nationally.

Toggle the 5km layer yourself 👇
iraqflaringwatch.com/#10.50/30.3700…
OpenStreetMap view of Basra, Iraq showing dozens of overlapping red dashed circles representing 5km health impact zones around active gas flares. The circles cover large parts of the city including residential neighbourhoods and roads . Arabic place names are visible including البصرة (Basra), الزبير (Zubair) and surrounding areas. The sidebar shows 417 active flares nationally with 5.1 million Iraqis living within 5km of a flare.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 12
Iraq Flaring Watch just got smarter 🔥

~5.1 Million Iraqis live within 5km of an active gas flare
~$2.25B in gas value burned annually
~3,196 MW of electricity generation potential — wasted

Explore the map 👇
iraqflaringwatch.com
Iraq Flaring Watch just got smarter 🔥 The sidebar now shows what's really at stake: ~5.1 Million Iraqis live within 5km of an active gas flare ~$2.25B in gas value burned annually ~3,196 MW of electricity generation potential — wasted Full methodology, data sources & scripts 👇 https://github.com/rawazrauf/iraq-flaring-watch/blob/main/DATA_METHODOLOGY.md Explore the map 👇 iraqflaringwatch.com
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 12
Replying to @IraqFlaring
Full methodology, data sources & scripts 👇
github.com/rawazrauf/iraq…
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 9
558,831 people live within 5km of this gas flare in Baghdad 🔥

The streets, the river, the neighbourhoods — all within
5km distance of an active industrial flare.

iraqflaringwatch.com/#14.00/33.2917…
OpenStreetMap view of southern Baghdad, Iraq showing a gas flare popup card overlaid on a dense urban street grid. Arabic street names and the Tigris river are visible. The popup shows 558,831 people living within 5km of this active flare site — the highest population exposure of any mapped flare in Iraq. A red-orange heat density cluster and cyan emission plume dots are visible in the surrounding residential area near the Al-Dora district.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 9
The largest CO2 emission plume detected in Iraq by satellite 🛰️

1,815,622 kg/hr — detected over the Rumaila oil field on
25 December 2025 by @CarbonMapper.

Click the cyan dot to see the satellite detection image 👇

iraqflaringwatch.com/#14.00/30.5664…
Satellite map of the Rumaila oil field in Basra, Iraq showing a cyan emission plume marker indicating a CO2 detection of 1,815,622 kg/hr recorded on 25 December 2025 by Carbon Mapper. The popup card shows emission rate, wind speed, sector classification as Energy/Power, and a satellite plume detection image.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 9
LUKOIL's West Qurna 2 field flared 1,642 million m³ of gas in 2024 🔥

That's ~$202M USD in value burned into the atmosphere —
enough electricity to power ~1.6 million Iraqi homes for a year.

Click the purple bubble 👇

iraqflaringwatch.com/#15.00/31.0322…
Satellite map zoomed into West Qurna 2 oil field in Basra, Iraq. A large purple bubble dominates the view representing 1,642 million cubic metres of gas flared in 2024 by LUKOIL. The popup card shows the economic impact: approximately $202 million USD in value lost and enough electricity to power 1.6 million Iraqi homes for a year. Orange flare markers and cyan emission plume dots are visible in the surrounding area.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 9
The Basra oil fields — Iraq's most flare-dense region 🔥 Every orange dot is an active gas flare. Every purple bubble is gas being burned instead of captured — worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually. Zoom in and click a bubble 👇 iraqflaringwatch.com/#18.00/30.6105…
High-resolution satellite image of an active gas flare stack in the Rumaila oil field, southern Iraq. An orange pulsing marker indicates the flare location, with a large purple economic waste bubble nearby showing annual gas volumes lost. A cyan emission plume dot marks a verified satellite detection. The flare infrastructure is clearly visible on the ground from space.
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Iraq Flaring Watch@IraqFlaring
Jun 9
Replying to @IraqFlaring
GitHub Repository:

github.com/rawazrauf/iraq…
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