The Urengoy gas field in the northern West Siberia Basin is the world's second largest

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after South Pars / North Dome Gas-Condensate field. It lies in the

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, just south of the

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. It is named after the settlement of Urengoy. The gas field is operated by Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy and serviced by the town of

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, 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

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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–Uzhhorod pipeline. A fire hit the Urengoy in 2021 which led to an increase in natural gas prices. In June 2022 the gas field caught fire again.

Production

The Urengoyskoye conventional gas field has over ten

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cubic meters (10¹³ m³) in total deposits. It recovered by the end of 2021 more than 90% of its reserves. As of 2021, its output was six times lower than at its peak from 1985 to 1996, but it still accounted for 3% of the country's natural gas output. The Urengoy gas field extracts 230 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, plus condensate and oil. In September 2013, Gazprom announced that a total of 6.5 trillion cubic meters of gas had been produced.

References

External links

Gazprom dobycha Urengoy
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