Energy Bangla

Ranks Petroleum Limited, a concern of Rangs Group, has recently organized a knowledge sharing seminar with the industry officials from power and energy sector in Dhaka. It is the sole distributor of world’s number 1 brand Shell Lubricants in Bangladeshi market. Shell has a long term international relationship with Wärtsilä, a global leader in power and energy sector, to provide lubrication solution to its engines. To develop similar relation in... »

Nineteen directives given a year ago by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to the Energy and Mineral Resources Division (EMRD) have lain dormant for the 14 months since they were issued. The prime minister issued the directives on February 6, 2014, in her capacity as minister for the Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry during her first visit to her office at the ministry last year. Ahead of Hasina’s second visit... »

Karnaphuli Fertilizer Co. Ltd. (KAFCO) has contributed Taka 11,732,479.00 (Taka eleven million seven hundred thirty two thousand four hundred seventy nine) being 0.5% of its profit for its financial year 2013-14 to the Sramik Kalyan Foundation. Mr. Md Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, ndc, Secretary, Ministry of Industries & Chairman, KAFCO handed over the cheque to Mr. Md. Mujibul Haque Chunnu, MP, Honorable State Minister for Labour & Employment in a program... »

Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation, short-named Petrobangla, has received bids from five joint-venture geophysical companies for mapping out hydrocarbon deposits in the Bay of Bengal. The state-owned energy monopoly invited bidders to survey potential reserves of the country’s energy resources aimed at ensuring energy security here. It’s really a good response to conduct 2D multi-client seismic survey offshore, said Petrobangla officials on Sunday. Petrobangla hopes to award the job... »

Five international geophysics companies sunday submitted tender documents to conduct multi-client seismic surveys of Bangladesh’s offshore areas. The objective of the survey is to provide the oil and gas industry with 2D seismic data of the offshore areas of Bangladesh to aid basin evaluation, prospect generation and robust bid-round participation. “Five interested companies submitted tender documents to conduct a 2D seismic marine survey,” Chairman Istiaque Ahmad of the Bangladesh Oil,... »

Energy Adviser to the Prime Minister Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury Bir Bikrom said, the foreign donors always advice us to increase the price of electricity and gas and use the additional money for the development of our industries. Mentioning that Bangladesh needs reliable power supplies to support industrial growth, which will not be possible if energy supplies remain under-invested and unreliable. He said, the country would witness reliable power supplies in... »

Experts underscored the need for reduction of CO2 emissions and minimize costs related to industrial energy consumption via energy efficiency engagement aimed at green transformation for ensuring environmentally sustainable economic growth. They were speaking at the launching ceremony of the Energy Efficiency Engagement program of the Nordic Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Bangladesh (NCCI). NCCI in collaboration with the Danish International Development Agency (Danida) through the Embassy of Denmark... »

Nairobi, 25 February 2015 – A transition to modern district energy systems could contribute to 60 per cent of required energy sector emissions reductions by 2050, and reduce primary energy consumption by up to 50 per cent, according to a new report launched today by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in collaboration with the Copenhagen Centre on Energy Efficiency (C2E2), ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability, and UN-Habitat. With... »

Quit hiking power prices, cut fuel oil prices and set-up coal-based power plants, participants urged the government at a private sector round table on energy policy. At the seminar, titled “Power System Development: Reliable Supply to Customers’ Perspective,” organised by the Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) in the city yesterday, DCCI former president Matiur Rahman called for reducing fuel oil prices and decreasing electricity prices. In order to... »

“Shurakkha”, a comprehensive road-safety and defensive driving program for commercial bus & truck drivers, jointly organized by BRAC and Chevron in collaboration with the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), was recently inaugurated at a local hotel in Sylhet. This forms part of a larger initiative that targets communities living near Chevron’s Bibiyana gas field and in Habiganj District, and aims to boost defensive-driving skills, increase awareness on safe pedestrian behaviors,... »