Production of gas from the Semutang field at Khagrachhri began Thursday noon, said an official state run petroleum exploration and production company Bapex.
He called it a spectacular success for Bapex to produce gas from Semutang, which was abandoned by an international oil company on the plea that it had a 'small reserve.'
Bapex general manager for drilling Amjad Hossain told New Age that the company would be able to supply 20 million cubic feet of natural gas a day from the field by October this year after setting up of a processing plant laying the connective supply pipeline.
Its managing director Mortuza Ahmad Faruque said that Bapex would
be able to supply l 50 million cubic feet of natural gas to the national grid from Salda and Fenchuganj gas fields sometime this year.
He said production from the two fields would raise the company's output to 110 million cubic feet a day, he said.
Karnaphuli Gas Transmission and Distribution Company started laying 20 kilometers of pipeline to supply gas from the two fields to the national grid to increase supply to Chittagong.
Bapex took the renovation work of the abandoned well at Semutang.
After discovery
Cairn Energy had abandoned the gas field in 1997 considering the reserve small.
Later, Petrobangla handed over the field to its subsidiary Bapex.
Amjad said that Bapex would start drilling a development well at Salda gas field in June.
He said that Bapex expects to start gas extraction at Salda in October.
He said that Bapex expects, it would be able to supply gas from Fenchuganj field to the national grid from August.
Faruque said that the company's engineers had already overcome 85 per cent of the complications that appeared while drilling the well.
He said that Bapex expects it would be able to start extraction from the gas field on test basis by July this year.
Source : New Age
