At the international conference ‘Oil and Gas of Turkmenistan – 2025,’ PJSC ‘Gazprom’ presented its technologies in the field of underground gas storage (UGS) construction. This was reported by the news website Turkmenportal.

Company representative Sergey Khan recalled that work on the creation of UGS facilities in Russia began in 1955, and over 70 years, more than 3 trillion cubic metres of gas have passed through them.

Currently, there are 27 storage facilities in operation with an operational reserve of 73 billion cubic metres. He emphasised that ‘Gazprom’ is a world leader in this field and possesses a full range of technologies for the design and operation of UGS facilities.

The Head of ‘Türkmengaz’, Maksat Babayev, reported that technical surveys are being completed in Turkmenistan for the construction of an underground gas storage facility based on the former ‘Ojak’ field with a capacity of 5 billion cubic metres of gas.