The process of mining Bitcoin by burning Flared Gas is not simply that there is an energy source and you insert the plug of the mining device into that source, as the gas is not burned if there is the possibility of storing it and selling it to the markets.

Burning the gas can either be a temporary process, as happens in flowback, where it is burned as a temporary measure to remove hydrostatic pressure, which is a stage before the well starts producing gas or as a temporary measure when problems occur.

Bitcoin mining resulting from this process is not a continuous thing, and therefore there will not be separate units in mining companies to exploit it, but rather a temporary thing.

If someone has more experience or knowledge, please add more links. Moving the topic to the mining board will give you better replies.

I tried to make some research to see the progress they have been able to make, there is no recent report on it.
From Fillippone's post There is still gas flaring ongoing in Nigeria even though it was something that we heard will stop since like 2020, so maybe ExxonMobil were not able to make any progress with it.

I wasn't familiar with the ExxonMobil project, but I did learn of some company several years ago that was already doing this. Going to oil operations and getting contracts to set up bitcoin miners to use the flared gas. A great way to secure Bitcoin while using 100% purely wasted energy, therefore zero greenhouse effects because the gas gets burnt anyway.

I also saw from some websites that they are considering expanding the project to these nations. Maybe they didn't go on with the project after analyzing the business. I have some contacts who reside close to the Exon Mobil Qua Iboe Terminal in Nigeria and they have confirmed that such a project is non-existent. Any project that could help recycle waste or pollutants will be highly appreciated because it will reduce the negative impact, and create jobs and revenue sources.


ExxonMobil is a multi-billion-dollar business that can afford the cost of experimenting, buying the necessary equipment and hiring the best manpower to make the project successful. In the case of Nigerian government policy might have affected the project because the government in power in 2022 was unfriendly with Bitcoin. Or maybe they are still in the development process.

I am just wondering why they are doing this? Is it for PR?

Reason being is that this is a extremely rich company and they don’t really need any of the bitcoin profits. I am guessing perhaps they did this project to see how it would go. If it lead to stable mining conditions and decent profits, they could say that those profits would all be donated to environmental charities.

Since there was no report since then, I am assuming it was very difficult to get a stable miner to function and they called it quits.

If it's for PR stunt then we should have heard news from them from time to time. But they started like 2 years ago and we haven't heard if it is a success or not or if they continue to. I assume they are as they have excessive supply and they don't want to waste it.


What do you mean? even rich people will go for free money whichever way they can. And so it's shooting two birds with one stone. They will look good from the environmentalist perspective as they recycle everything and then getting profits at the side, regardless how big or small it is.

What the hell? We're having so much fuel that it's wasted because we're lacking the pipelines? How could we come to this point that energy is expensive to buy when you're a consumer but then you've got problems like this at the top of production? That's an unacceptable to happen, I don't even think that we have to disregard this and be happy that it's used for bitcoin mining, this is a bad thing, we pay for gas at a premium and we get this kind of problem, now on the topic of using that excess to fuel the power needed for mining bitcoins, I think that it's a good idea to use it there but then I'm thinking that those that have been opposing bitcoin as a source of pollution because of where they get their power to mine will see this as another reason to hate on bitcoin and will definitely the dumb masses will again voice out their opinion about bitcoin being bad for the environment.