A Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited web site photo shows a call to avoid spoil of gas is inscribed in Bangla on an image of gas pipes. The gas distribution companies, after a one-year moratorium, will start giving fresh gas connections to industries from February.
A Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited web site photo shows a call to avoid spoil of gas is inscribed in Bangla on an image of gas pipes. The gas distribution companies, after a one-year moratorium, will start giving fresh gas connections to industries from February.
The gas distribution companies, after a one-year moratorium, will start giving fresh gas connections to industries from February, officials said.
About 800 applications have been pending with the four state-run gas utility companies for new connections and increase in gas flow (load expansion) since December 2013, they said.
Energy Division secretary Abu Bakar Siddique told that the gas distributing entities by early February would begin providing new connections to a few industrial boilers and increasing existing load of the boilers.
Other applicants will also get connections in phases after the gas utility companies concerned examine their (applicants’) factory sites, he said.
The secretary, however, said, ‘No new captive power plants in the industries will get gas connection.’
The government took the decision of giving new connection to the industries as the gas production in the Bibiyana field will increase by 300 million cubic feet a day by the middle of 2015, he said.
An ad hoc committee led by the prime minister’s energy adviser, Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, would give final clearance to the applications after the boards of the gas distribution companies send the applications to the committee.
The committee in late December of 2013, a few days before the national polls, approved 82 applications for fresh industrial connection and two for increase of gas flow to two industries.
The gas utilities are Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited, Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution System Limited, Bakhrabad Gas Distribution Company Limited, Pashchimanchal Gas Company Limited, Karnaphuli Gas Distribution Company Limited and Sundarban Gas Company Limited.
The companies are the concerns of Petrobangla, the state-run oil, gas and mineral resources corporation.
The 800 applications for new gas connection to the industrial boilers and captive power generators have been pending with the gas distribution companies excepting Sundarban Gas Company and Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution System, officials said.
The applications also included pleas for increase of gas flow to boilers and captive power generators, they said.
The ad hoc committee in January 2011 started giving final approval for new gas connection to industries after the government had suspended giving new connection to all the sectors excepting the power plants from July, 2010.
The government, in the wake of severe gas shortage, had imposed the suspension on giving new gas connection to households, CNG filling stations and tea estates.
Jalalabad Gas Transmission and Distribution System was out of the suspension due to an availability of natural gas in the Sylhet-Moulvibazar region where most of the gas fields are located.
The government on May 7, 2013, allowed the gas distribution companies to provide fresh connection to households where the gas distribution networks were already installed.
Petrobangla now supplies some 2,400 million cubic feet of natural gas a day against a demand for over 3,000 million cubic feet, officials said.
Curtsy: New Age