List of natural gas fields in Bangladesh
Appearance
Currently there are 28 natural gas fields in Bangladesh.[1] The first gas field was discovered at Haripur, Sylhet in 1955 and the last gas field was discovered in the 2017 at Bhola.[2] Titas gas field is the largest natural gas field in Bangladesh. It was invented by the Pakistan Shell Oil Company in Brahmanbaria in the year 1962. The first gas transmission was started in 1957.
List
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No. | Name | Year | Location | discovered by | Total reserves | Extractable | Extract | remaining |
1 | Haripur gas field | 1955 | Sylhet | Burmah Oil | 40404 | 0.266 | 0.158 | 0.108 |
2 | Chhatak Gas Field | 1959[3] | Sunamganj | Burmah oil | 1.900 | 1.140 | 0.029 | 1.113 |
3 | Rashidpur gas field | 1960 | Habiganj | Pakistan Shell Oil Company | 2.242 | 1.309 | 0.080 | 1.227 |
4 | Kailashtila gas field | 1962 | Sylhet | Pakistan Shell Oil Company | 3.657 | 2.529 | 0.108 | 2.421 |
5 | Titas gas field | 1962 | Brahmanbaria | Pakistan Shell Oil Company | 4.132 | 2.100 | 0.353 | 1.747 |
6 | Habiganj gas field | 1963 | Habiganj | Pakistan Shell Oil Company | 3.669 | 1.895 | 0.567 | 1.328 |
7 | Semutang gas field | 1969 | Khagrachhari | OGDC | 0.164 | 0.098 | 0.098 | |
8 | Bakhrabad gas field | 1969 | Comilla | Pakistan Shell Oil Company | 1.432 | 0.867 | 0.501 | 0.366 |
9 | Kutubdia gas field | 1977 | Cox's Bazar | Union Oil | 0.780 | 0.468 | 0.468 | |
10 | Begumganj gas field | 1977 | Noakhali District | Petrobangla | 0.025 | 0.014 | 0.014 | |
11 | Beanibazar gas field | 1981 | Sylhet | Petrobangla | 0.243 | 0.113 | 0.113 | |
12 | Feni gas field | 1981 | Feni District | Petrobangla | 0.132 | 0.080 | 0.036 | 0.044 |
13 | Kamta gas field | 1981 | Gazipur | Petrobangla | 0.325 | 0.195 | 0.021 | 0.174 |
14 | Jalalabad gas field | 1989 | Sylhet | simiter | 1.500 | 0.900 | 0.900 | |
15 | Kulaura gas field | 1989 | Moulvibazar | Petrobangla | 0.350 | 0.210 | 0.210 | |
16 | Meghna gas field | 1990 | Narsingdi | Petrobangla | 0.194 | 0.126 | 0.004 | 0.080 |
17 | Narsingdi gas field | 1990 | Narsingdi | Petrobangla | 159 | 111 | 29.03 | 81.97 |
18 | Shahbazpur gas field | 1995 | Bhola | BAPEX | 0.504 | 0.333 | 0.333 | |
19 | Sangu gas field | 1996 | Chittagong | Cairn Energy | 1.031 | 0.848 | ||
20 | Salda gas field | 1996 | Brahmanbaria | BAPEX | 20000 | 0.140 | 0.140 | |
21 | Moulvibazar gas field | 1997 | Moulvibazar | UNICOL | 0.147 | 0.110 | 0.110 | |
22 | Bibiyana gas field | 1998 | Habiganj | UNICOL | 2.4 | 1.77 | 1.77 | |
23 | Lalmai gas field | 2005 | Comilla | Tallo | ||||
24 | Bangura gas field | 2005 | Comilla | BAPEX | 457 | |||
25 | Sundalpur gas field | 2011 | Noakhali | BAPEX | ||||
26 | Sunetra gas field | 2011 | Sunamganj, Netrokona | BAPEX | ||||
27 | Srikail gas field | 2012 | Comilla | BAPEX | ||||
28 | Pabna gas field | 2017 | Mubarakpur,sathiya,Pabna | BAPEX | ||||
29 | Bhola north-1 | 2017 | Shahbajpur,Bhola | BAPEX | 1.5 trillion | |||
30 | Jokigonj | 2021 | Jokigonj, Sylhet | BAPEX | 68 billion approx |
See also
References
- ^ UNB, Dhaka (9 August 2021). "Bangladesh announces 28th gas field in Sylhet's Zakiganj". The Daily Star. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
- ^ "ইয়াছিন গ্যাসক্ষেত্রের সন্ধান". bonikbarta. Retrieved 17 Oct 2018.
- ^ Sirajul Islam, ed. (Jan 2003). banglapedia (in Bengali). Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN 984-32-0576-6. Retrieved 7 April 2020.