Bapex, the state-owned gas and oil exploration entity, has found a fresh gas reserve in an abandoned well of Beanibazar under Sylhet Gas Field.
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex) officials expect to get 10mmcfd (million cubic feet per day) gas daily from the well.
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid made the announcement in a post from his verified Facebook page yesterday.
“Along with that, 100 barrels of condensate will be produced from the well daily. Hopefully, within a short time, we will be able to add the newfound gas and condensate to the national grid,” he said, UNB reported.
Bapex started digging the well on September 10 and confirmed the gas reserve yesterday morning.
Nasrul Hamid said the government would dig 46 new explorations, development, and workover wells by 2025.
“We are hopeful of adding around 620MMCFD gas to the national grid from these wells,” he said.
According to Sylhet Gas Fields Limited (SGFL), there are two wells in Beanibazar under Sylhet Gas Field. Production from well No 1 started in 1999 and was closed in 2014.
Production resumed in well No 1 at the beginning of 2016 and was stopped again at the end of the same year.
Engineer Shahinur Islam, managing director of SGFL, said: "We will soon be able to start production from this well after completing some other activities. Before the start of drilling, it was estimated in the Development Project Performa (DPP) that 5mmcfd gas will be found in the well, but now it seems the amount of available gas will be more.”
Apart from Beanibazar well, the digging of Kailashtila-8 and Goainghat-10 wells in Golapganj and installation work of one transmission pipeline in Rashidpur is going on under SGFL, he said.
SGFL's gas production will further increase after the completion of these projects, he added.