State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex) Saturday started supplying 7 million cubic feet (mmcf) of gas per day to the national grid from the six wells of Semutang gas field of Khagrachhari.
“The drilling of the wells at 3032 metres ended recently. However, we have found gas reserves which are commercially viable at the depth of 1100 metres from the ground. The six wells are development wells,” Abdul Halim, director of the well-drilling project at the Bapex told the Dhaka Tribune.
The company, a subsidiary of the state-owned Petrobangla, initiated the drilling of the wells through Gazprom, the Russian state-run gas exploration company for exploration of gas.
Petrobangla sources said currently more than 2,300 million cubic feet of gas were being supplied every day against a daily demand of 2,700-3,000 million cubic feet.
The government in April, 2012, signed a deal with Gazprom on drilling 10 gas wells, spending $193.55 million across the country without any tender under the Power and Energy Quick Supply (special provision) Act.
Bapex is currently producing and supplying 104 million cubic feet of gas to the national grid every day from its six gas fields in Saldanadi, Fenchuganj, Shahbazpur, Semutung, Sundalpur and Srikail.