Permanent Gas Emission from the Seyakha Crater of Gas Blowout, Yamal Peninsula, Russian Arctic

• Published in: Energies
• Main Authors: Vasily Bogoyavlensky, Igor Bogoyavlensky, Roman Nikonov, Vladimir Yakushev, Viacheslav Sevastyanov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021
• Subjects: Yamal Peninsula; permafrost; gas hydrates; methane; pingo; pingo-like feature (PLF); Technology; T; Arctic; Siberia
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.3390/en14175345; https://doaj.org/article/49a139b5c4a1430ab19d6e32e14ce21c

The article is devoted to the four-year (2017–2020) monitoring of gas emissions from the bottom of the Seyakha Crater, located in the central part of the Yamal Peninsula (north of Western Siberia). The crater was formed on 28 June 2017 due to a powerful blowout, self-ignition and explosion of gas (m...