Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex) yesterday started supplying 7 million cubic feet (mmcf) of gas per day to the national grid from its six wells of Semutang gas field in Khagrachhari. “The drilling ended recently at 3032 metres, but we found commercially viable gas reserves at a depth of 1100 metres.
These are development wells.” Abdul Halim, director of the well-drilling project of Bapex told the Dhaka Tribune. The company, a subsidiary of the state-owned Petrobangla, initiated the drilling of the well through Gazprom, a Russian state-run gas exploration company.
Petrobangla sources said more than 2,300 million cubic feet of gas is being supplied every day against a daily demand of 2,700 to 3,000 million cubic feet. The government in April, 2012 signed a deal with Gazprom on drilling 10 gas wells at a spending of $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.