Urengoy gas field

For other uses of "Urengoy", see Urengoy (disambiguation).

The Urengoy gas field in the northern West Siberia Basin is the world's second largest natural gas field after South Pars / North Dome Gas-Condensate field.^{[citation needed]} It lies in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast, Russia, just south of the Arctic Circle in North Asia. It is named after the settlement of Urengoy. The gas field is operated by Gazprom Dobycha Urengoy^[1] and serviced by the town of Novy Urengoy, founded in 1973.

Urengoy gas field
Location of Urengoy gas field
Country	Russia
Region	Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
Offshore/onshore	onshore
Coordinates	66.1°N 76.9°E / 66.1; 76.9
Operator	Gazprom dobycha Urengoy
Partner	Gazprom
Field history
Discovery	1966
Start of production	1978
Production
Current production of oil	16,500 barrels per day (~8.22×10^5 t/a)
Current production of gas	25,152×10^6 cu ft/d (712.2×10^6 m3/d)
Estimated gas in place	353,000×10^9 cu ft (10,000×10^9 m3)
Producing formations	Cretaceous sandstones

History

Urengoy gas - for the Motherland! West Siberia. Post of USSR, 1981.

West Siberian petroleum basin oil and gas fields

Urengoy gas field was discovered in June 1966.^[2] 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 natural gas. 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.^[1] In June 2022 the gas field caught fire again.^[1]

Production

The Urengoyskoye conventional gas field has over ten trillion cubic meters (10¹³ m³) in total deposits.^[1] 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.^[3] The Urengoy gas field extracts 230 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, plus condensate and oil.^[1] In September 2013, Gazprom announced that a total of 6.5 trillion cubic meters of gas had been produced.^[4]