VI. The gas industry of Turkmenistan: from the past to the present
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In the mid-1980s, with the introduction of a number of
small and large gas fields – Üçajy, Seýrap, Şorköl, Malaý, Garaçöp, Eastern
Tejen and Bagaja – into experimental-industrial and industrial operation, the
country’s gas industry continued its effective development, thereby increasing
the vo
The Seýrap gas
field was discovered in 1978 and put into experimental-industrial operation in
August 1984. Industrial gas content of the carbon deposit was discovered in the
terrigenous deposits of the lower Hauterivian age (Şatlyk horizon).