[citation needed] It lies in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Tyumen Oblast, Russia, just south of the Arctic Circle.
[2] The first drilling hole hit gas on 6 July 1966 and the field started production in 1978.
On 25 February 1981, Urengoy extracted its first one hundred billion cubic meters (1011 m3) of natural gas.
[1] The Urengoyskoye conventional gas field has over ten trillion cubic meters (1013 m3) in total deposits.
[1] In September 2013, Gazprom announced that a total of 6.5 trillion cubic meters of gas had been produced.