Energy Bangla

All the gas-fired power plants have shut down in Chittagong due to gas crisis. Gas allocated to the power plants is now being supplied to the fertiliser factories. Resumption of electricity supply from the power plants is uncertain. Electricity crisis in Chittagong has increased manifolds. Due to gas crisis the government operates the power plants and fertiliser factories alternatively. An official of the Power Development Board (PDB) said on February... »

Indonesia is interested in exporting LNG to Bangladesh, Iwan Wiranata Atmadja, the Indonesian ambassador to Bangladesh said January 29, according to Dhaka Tribune. Atmadja met with Bangladeshi state minister for power, energy and mineral resources Nasrul Hamid. “We would require 3,500mn ft3/d gas in the future. So, we have been looking for available sources,” the minister said. Atmadja further stated that Indonesian public as well as private companies are willing... »

The government is likely to import Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) from Qatar’s state-run RasGas to meet the country’s current demand for gas. The cabinet committee on economic affairs on Wednesday has approved the proposal in principle of importing 3.75 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from RasGas at an estimated cost of US$2.28 billion. The cabinet committee also approved a proposal of installing a floating LNG terminal at Maheshkhali,... »

It’s been almost 8 years since a foreign company has got the opportunity to export gas to outside Bangladesh, at least in papers. Australian oil company, Santos Bangladesh Limited (SPL) was given the opportunity to export gas if it finds any at the offshore block DS-16, which is about to be explored by Santos and Bapex soon. The exploration will start once the Sales Purchase Agreement (SPA) between Santos and... »

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company has launched a dedicated call center to serve their customers. Customers from now on will be able to communicate with the ‘customer service’ of Titas at these numbers: 16496 and 09612316496. The Titas also launched a website: www.titasgas.org.bd to receive complaints from the customers. Titas introduced this call center on last Thursday. Experimentally, the call center will remain open from 9 am to 8... »

The government is going to install a total of 60,000 domestic prepaid gas meters in the residential areas of Chittagong to reduce pilferage and waste of gas. The project is likely to be completed by June of 2018 and would require an estimated cost of Tk 246 crore. The meters will be installed as part of the project titled ‘Natural Gas Efficiency Project’. Recently, an agreement between the state-owned Karnaphuli... »

The Cabinet Economic Affairs Committee approved a proposal in principle on Wednesday to allow the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) to sign a Sale and Purchase Agreement (SPA) with Australian oil company Santos for offshore gas exploration at Deep Sea Block-16 (DS-16) under a joint venture. Bapex’s parent organization Petrobangla, the state-run Oil, Gas, and Mineral Resources Corporation have earlier drafted a ‘Sales Purchase Agreement’ (SPA)... »

The cabinet has given its consent to cut down a number of trees to ease the installation of gas transmission line. Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited will build the transmission line from Sripur to Gazipur by cutting down a total of 13 thousands and 356 trees. This special approval came from a scheduled cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday. After the meeting, the... »

Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company limited, one of the state owned distribution authority recently has disconnected a total of 66 thousands 904 illegal gas connections including 75.29 kilometers of gas line, one industrial and four commercial illegal gas connections. Titas said that, it has started conducting drive to snap the illegal connections and eventually cut them off. A mobile court headed by an executive Magistrate conducts the drive. The... »

The state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited, also known as Bapex is about to begin an exploration at the offshore block-16 with the assistance from the Australian oil company Santos. Bapex’s parent organization Petrobangla, the state-run Oil, Gas, and Mineral Resources Corporation have already drafted a ‘Sales Purchase Agreement’ (SPA) to conduct the exploration. The SPA draft was sent to the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council... »