Turkmenistan continues development of biggest gas field

In his address to the participants of Oil and Gas Turkmenistan -2013 (OFT-2013) Turkmenistan President Gurbangulu Berdymohammadov said that implementation of a wide-scale project to develop the world biggest gas field Galkynysh continues.

“The construction of the gas cleaning plant with the production capacity of 30 billion cub.m. of tank gas a year is currently in progress as a part of the second stage of the field development,” said the message. 

President has reminded the recent launching of the gas cleaning plants on Galkynysh as a part of the first stage.

He said the Turkmen specialists have been working side by side with their colleagues from China, Korea and United Arab Emirates.

The biggest fields in Turkmenistan are located on the east of the country in Mary district – total resources of Galkynysh together with the neighboring fields are estimated by local geologists and British GCA company at 26.2 trillion cub.m. 

The works on Galkynysh are carried out since 2009 on the basis of the service contracts. Turkmengas has instructed CNPC, Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company Limited (Korea), LG International Corp and Hyundai Engineering Co., Ltd (South Korea), Petrofac International LLC. and Gulf Oil & Gas FZE (ОАЭ) to perform some works.

The capacities to make 30 billion cub.m. of tank gas a year were installed in early September as a part of the first stage of Galkynysh. During this period Turkmenistan and China have agreed to start the talks to fund the second stage of the Galkynysh development.

Turkmenistan is among the key players at the energy market in the Caspian Sea region and it has been exporting gas to Russia and Iran for a long time. The route to China was opened in 2009, which is a strategic buyer of gas at present.—0—