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).