Well drilling for Pabna gas exploration starts
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex) started digging an exploration well in Santhia upazila of Pabna yesterday, five years after it took up a project to find if the natural resource is available there.
The drilling started on an area of 8.8 acres in Mobarakpur site, 40km east of the district town. A reserve of 170 billion cubic feet (BCF) of gas is expected there.
“This is a challenge to drill in a new geographical condition, but Bapex hopes that it would succeed," said Prof Hossain Monsur, chairman of Petrobangla, who inaugurated the drilling, being conducted by the rig called Bijoy 12. The well would be 4.5km deep.
Md Khairul Islam, administrative officer of Mobarakpur site, told the Daily Star that the drilling was expected to be completed in three months.
On completion of a five-year joint seismic survey by Petrobangla and German company Prakla Seismos in 1984, Mubarakpur was identified as a prospective site. The government sanctioned Tk. 89.26 core for the drilling project there in March 2009.
At present, the country produces 2,250 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd).
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