Darvaza gas crater. petrol pump near me. Methane gas. the door to hell. Darvaza gas crater temperature. Darvaza crater.
This crater was created in 1971 in search of petroleum as the region is full of natural gas and oil, so, according to Anatoly Bushmakin a Turkmen geologist, in 1971 the site was identified as a substantial oil rich site by the Soviet engineers, so in order to get that oil the Soviet engineers performed operation and set up drilling to assess the available quantity of oil in that particular region.









