Urengoy gas field

The Urengoy gas field with more than 300 TCF ( = 300,000,000,000,000 (10 ¹ ²) cubic feet, or 8.1 trillion cubic meters) of one of the largest continuous natural gas reserves in the world. It is in Russia in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district of the Tyumen Oblast ( Siberia) south of the Arctic Circle.

It was discovered in June 1966 and started production in 1978. From January 1984 was the natural gas pipeline Urengoy - Uzhgorod (Ukraine ) was added, exports to Western Europe. The development of the gas field could by Beck studies not initially be explained. Between 1995 and 1997 a joint investigation by the German Institute for Petroleum and Organic Geochemistry with two Russian research institutes. 1997 Bernhard Cramer gave this explanation as the migration of dissolved gas in groundwater from the south in a 2500 m thick aquifer and a place in the Cenozoic uplift of the overburden.

Currently, about 200 billion cubic meters of natural gas are produced annually. The exploration is performed by Urengoigasprom, a subsidiary of Gazprom. In order to develop the gas field, the city of Novy Urengoy was founded.

361825
de