We employ an automated detection algorithm to perform a global study of solar prominence characteristics. We process four months of TESIS observations in the He ii 304Å line taken close to the solar minimum of 2008-2009 and focus mainly on quiescent and quiescent-eruptive prominences. We detect a total of 389 individual features ranging from 25 × 25 to 150 × 500 Mm 2 in size and obtain distributions of many their spatial characteristics, such as latitudinal position, height, size and shape. To study their dynamics, we classify prominences as either stable or eruptive and calculate their average centroid velocities, which are found to be rarely exceeding 3 km s −1 . Besides, we give rough estimates of mass and gravitational energy for every detected prominence and use these values to evaluate the total mass and gravitational energy of all simultaneously existing prominences (10 12 -10 14 kg and 10 29 -10 31 erg, respectively). Finally, we investigate the form of the gravitational energy spectrum of prominences and derive it to be a power-law of index −1.1 ± 0.2.