Turkmenistan's South Yolotan-Osman natural gas field is a «super giant» and one of the world's largest undeveloped deposits, said the company commissioned by the government to survey the country's reserves.
The field is 75 kilometers long and 35 kilometers wide, has a gas column of 500 meters and is likely to hold 6 trillion cubic meters of gas, Jim Gillett, business development manager at London-based Gaffney, Cline & Associates Ltd said in a speech delivered at a conference in London yesterday.
That's about equal to the US's proven reserves. The South Yolotan-Osman field in eastern Turkmenistan has «significant development challenges,» Gillett said. These include substantial sulfur and carbon dioxide contents and higher-than-average temperatures and pressure.
(KATHIMERINI, 20/02/2009)