Turkmenistan To Close "Gates Of Hell" Gas Fire

OilPrice.com ^ | Jan 10 2022 | Irina Slav

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Turkmenistan's president has ordered the government to find a way to extinguish a colossal gas fire burning since the 1970s.

Dubbed the "Gates of Hell," the fire was rumored to be started deliberately in 1971 when a gas-drilling site collapsed into a gas reservoir, and geologists decided to set it on fire to keep the methane from spewing into the atmosphere—in the expectation that the fire would die out on its own in a few weeks.

It didn't.

The crater currently measures more than 230 feet by 65 feet and is a major tourist attraction in Turkmenistan, which has proven reserves of 19.5 trillion cubic meters of natural gas, which makes them the world's fourth-largest. Production stood at a little over 60 billion cubic meters annually as of 2019, with half of that exported to China.

The "Gates of Hell" crater's official name is the "Shining of Karakum," but it is also known as the Darvaza Crater, named so after the nearby village. The site is located some 160 miles from the Turken capital Ashgabad.

According to long-time president Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the fire is having an adverse impact on the environment and affecting the health of people living in the vicinity, according to a report by the AP citing Turkmen media.

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The article mentioned that they tried to put it out during the Soviet years.

Another great idea that didn’t work ... but it does make me wonder what they tried.

[texas booster]

That's because it's a memento of Soviet era resource management and, as a communist/socialist disaster, is immune from criticism. In woke epistemology, just as racism can only occur among white people, environmental despoliation is only attributable to capitalism.

Sphinx, truer words have seldom been spoken.

[jjotto]

You can likely remember when you’d have gotten 30 insulting responses by now.

Sad what’s happened to FR.

[texas booster]

Since FR has fewer posters now than many years ago, I try to find out of the way articles that will hopefully help us learn something, and even get a few of us to post replies.

You can likely remember when you’d have gotten 30 insulting responses by now.

I can get 30 insulting replies just by excepting a blog post, which (when thinking about it) probably deserves the heckling.

[Eagles6]

CO2 makes up .04% of the atmosphere.

Some estimates guess that human activity is responsible for 2% of that.

[Uber-Eng]

“ Seriously, over 50 years of natural gas burning and not one peep from Greta”

Yup. Do the calculations on the global warming there and let us know if they’ve even heard a peep from her.

[G Larry]

ya, no kiddin’...so has any hope of putting this out...

[usurper]

Only way I could think to put it out would be to flood the hole quickly.

I would just fill it with cement. Yes I know it would be expensive.

[Scrambler Bob]

Then, in 2010, Berdymukhamedov again ordered experts to find a way to extinguish the fire, but was unsuccessful as well.
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When Brandon finds out, he will want to keep it burning.

But with his success rate, it will go out.

[SuperLuminal]

"One previous attempt failed back in Soviet times"

The Soviets did accomplish the equivalent on one of their "fires" by closing the hole with an atomic blast... Very successful...

[GreyFriar]

I’m sure that if he requests it, all of the Hollywood globull warming fanatics will fly there to help him pour water on the flames.

[Graybeard58]

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