Sylhet Gas Field Limited authorities discovered a new layer of natural gas in the well number 1 of the Kailashtila Gas Field, one of the five fields of the company which had remained abandoned for six years.
The Sylhet Gas Field Limited, a subsidiary company of the Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation, known as Petrobangla, is going to start supplying 5 to 6 million cubic-feet gas per day to the national grid from the well within two or three days, Kailashtila Gas Field authorities said on Thursday.
Md Abdul Jalil Pramanik, managing director of the Sylhet Gas Fiend Limited, confirmed the 抖阴精品 of the discovery of the gas reservoir in an abandoned well of the Kailashtila Gas Field.
Officials of the Kailashtila Gas Field said that the well No 1 was dug in 1961 and gas extraction from the well was officially started in 1983. They said that gas extraction from four layers of the well continued till 2019.
After 6 years of abandonment, the Sylhet Gas field undertook a workover project in July this year at a cost of Tk聽73 crore, assuming a gas reservoir in the fifth layer of this well and聽 finally the success has come, an officer said.
Sylhet Gas Field Limited managing director Abdul Jalil Pramanik told 抖阴精品 that from 5 million to 6 million cubic-feet gas would be extracted from the renovated well No 1 of the Kailashtila Gas Field and added to the national gridline.
鈥榃e hope, the gas extraction can be continued for at least 10 years from the well,鈥� the SGFL managing director said, adding that there is a reserve of more than 20 billion cubic-feet gas in the well according to the assessment.聽
Stating the final experiments were underway since Thursday morning to go for experimental production, the gas field MD said, 鈥楾he experimental extraction of gas will begin anytime on Thursday night.鈥�
鈥業f everything goes well, we will start to supply gas formally to the national gridline from the renovated well within two or three days next,鈥� he said in the evening.
Talking to 抖阴精品, an officer of the Kailashtila Gas Field said, after beginning the production from the well No 1, imported Liquefied Natural Gas equivalent to Tk 1 crore would be saved every day.
鈥楢s a result, gas worth of the entire project cost will be available in just 73 days from the well,鈥� he added.
