Satellite night-time heat detections over the flare field at roughly 28.91°N, 19.77°E show 3 clusters that stayed lit on at least 5 of the last 30 nights (28 Aug–26 Sep 2026), from 347 hot-night detections. The most persistent cluster was lit on 29 nights and peaked at 127.22 MW. All 3 clusters sit on sites listed in the independent VIIRS Nightfire 2024 annual flare summary, the nearest just 0.15 km away, where the top site was credited with 0.665 billion cubic metres.
What this is not: the sensor cannot tell a gas flare from a refinery furnace, a steel or cement kiln, or a volcano — it is the night-after-night persistence plus the match to known flare sites that points to flaring. The heat figure is not a volume: the detector saturates on the biggest flames, and volume estimates come only from the annual summary. Cold venting and unlit methane leaks would be invisible here. No operator or owner is identified; a cluster is a place, not a company.
What would change our mind: a volcanic or industrial heat source mapped at these coordinates, or a cloud-free stretch showing the clusters going dark.
Written by AI, then checked by a separate reviewer before publication. Every claim points at the evidence below.