Amangeldy Gas Wells

The Amangeldy Gas Wells (Iradi: Amangeldy gaz kuduktary) are capped Soviet exploration wells on a gas-condensate structure in the western Moiynkum sands, about 8 kilometers east-north-east of the hamlet of Töö-Kuduk, in the Northern Steppe planning zone of the Autonomous Tribal Regions (ATR), at about 44°20′N 71°05′E.^[1] The wells were drilled during the Soviet surveys of the Chu–Sarysu basin and found gas and condensate, but the structure was never developed, and they were capped in 1991. Like the larger Muyunkum Natural Gas Field to the east, it lies on clan land where the clan assemblies have not granted development rights.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Talas State University Press (2009). Petroleum Geology of the Chu Basin and the Moiynkum. Talas.
2. ^ United Nations Mission in Irad (2020). Resource Arrangements across the Qara-Chik Line. Kara-Oi.