On 5-6 June 2024, Ashgabat hosts an international scientific conference: “Energy perspectives, new technologies and environmental aspects in the development of hydrocarbon resources”, organized by the state concerns Turkmengaz and Turkmennebit, the State Corporation Turkmengeologiya in cooperation with the Turkmen-Forum and the British company GaffneyCline. Double the attendance from last year, the conference brought together […]
Turkmenistan is moving forward with plans to extinguish a gas crater in the Karakum desert
The project to extinguish the gas crater “Gates of Hell” in the Turkmen Karakum desert, which caught fire more than 50 years ago due to the collapse of an exploration mine, is at the approval stage, TASS reports with reference to Irina Luryeva, head of the laboratory of the Natural Gas Research Institute of the […]
Turkmenistan came up with a plan to extinguish the “Gates of Hell”
The Darvaza gas crater or the Shining Karakum is located 270 kilometers from Ashgabat in the central Karakums. Back in Soviet times, in 1963, an attempt was made to drill an exploration well there, but a gas-filled void was discovered at a shallow depth. A sinkhole was formed with a depth of 20 meters and […]