The start of the drilling of an exploration well in the Sunetra gas field is likely to be delayed until at least the end of the year as the state-run petroleum exploration and extraction company Bapex and its parent organisation Petrobangla have failed to finalise a development project proposal.
According to experts working within Bapex and Petrobangla, the Sunetra structure which is located in Sunamganj and Netrakona could become the biggest exploration success of the state-run corporation.
Although Bapex had given the project its highest priority and has planned to drill an exploration well by April, this will not happen until December at the earliest. The discovery of the gas field was announced in August 2010.
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