Bangladesh Gas Field Company Ltd (BGFCL) has started supplying gas amounting to 15 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) to the national grid from the 18th well of Titas Gas Field in Brahmanbaria after five months of drilling.
BGFCL Managing Director Shafiqur Rahman has confirmed the news to the Dhaka Tribune. "The national grid is being supplied with gas from the well from yesterday and the amount is 15 mmcfd."
He hoped the amount would "help the country ease its gas crisis."
The company, a subsidiary of the state-owned Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation (Petrobangla), initiated drilling the well through Bapex for exploration of gas on March 22 and continued till the end of May. It was drilled up to 3,300 metres from surface.
On June 16, BGFCL began extracting gas experimentally from the well. But a day later, water surfaced in the well, stopping the gas production.
Bapex then conduced remedial work in the well and resume extraction from yesterday.
Shafiqur Rahman said Bakhrabad Gas Systems Ltd, the distribution company, is supplying the gas to the consumers.
According to the official sources concerned, 15mmcfd gas is an amount of fuel which can generate more than 75 megawatt of electricity.
