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. The gas field has over ten

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cubic meters (10¹³ m³) in total deposits. It lies in

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in Tyumen Oblast of

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, just south of the

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and named after the settlement of Urengoy. The gas field is serviced by the town of Novy Urengoy, founded in 1973.

History

Urengoy gas field was discovered in June 1966. The first drilling hole hit gas on 6 July 1966 and the field started production in 1978. On 25 February 1981, Urengoy extracted its first one hundred billion cubic meters (10¹¹ m³) of

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. From January 1984, Urengoy gas started to be exported to Western Europe through the Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhgorod pipeline.

Production

The Urengoy gas field extracts 260 billion cubic meters of natural gas, more than 5,000 tons of condensate and 825,000 tons of oil per year. It is operated by Gazprom dobycha Urengoy, a subsidiary of

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. In September 2013, Gazprom announced that a total of 6.5 trillion cubic meters of gas had been produced. A fire hit the Urengoy in 2021 which led to an increase in natural gas prices. In June 2022 the gas field caught fire.

References

External links

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