The Darvaza Crater, famously known as the “Gates of Hell,” has been a fiery landmark in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert since 1971. Formed during a drilling accident at the Chaljulba structure within the Zeagli-Dervezinskaya group of fields, the crater was ignited to prevent toxic gas from harming people and livestock. Initially expected to burn out in […]
Turkmenistan is moving forward with plans to extinguish a gas crater in the Karakum desert
The project to extinguish the gas crater “Gates of Hell” in the Turkmen Karakum desert, which caught fire more than 50 years ago due to the collapse of an exploration mine, is at the approval stage, TASS reports with reference to Irina Luryeva, head of the laboratory of the Natural Gas Research Institute of the […]