Sylhet Fuel Fields Restricted (SGFL) has began supplying about 19 million cubic toes of fuel per day (mmcfd) to the nationwide grid from effectively no 7 of Kailashtila fuel subject.
The fuel provide began 8:45pm Saturday (7 Could), mentioned Mir Mohammad Aslam Uddin, deputy chief data officer of Ministry of Energy, Vitality and Mineral Assets.
The state-run vitality exploration firm, Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Manufacturing Firm Ltd (Bapex) discovered the brand new fuel supply on 27 April this 12 months.
Nicely no 7 of the Kailashtila fuel subject was declared deserted in 2017.
In February this 12 months, Bapex began workover on the effectively on behalf of the SGFL Authority which was accomplished by April.
Aslam Uddin famous that the effectively is producing fuel at 2800 psi.
Earlier within the day, State Minister for Energy, Vitality and Mineral Assets Nasrul Hamid mentioned after extraction from effectively no 7 of Kailashtila subject it is going to be attainable to extract 17-19 million cubic toes of fuel from Could 10.
There are complete seven wells within the fuel subject in Sylhet.
Round 29 million cubic toes of fuel is being produced from the at the moment operational (two) wells.
Fuel was discovered within the Kailash Tila Fuel Discipline in 1962. Nevertheless, manufacturing began in 1983.
A comparability of information from Petrobangla—the state-owned hydrocarbon company—exhibits that the nation produced round 2324.7 mmcfd fuel per day, of which three native corporations produce round 691 mmcfd, two Worldwide Oil Corporations (IOC) produce round 945 mmcfd and imports round 688.1 mmcfd per day.
