New gas pipeline starts operation
Petrobangla, the state-run oil and gas company, expects some improvement in gas supply to northern part of the city as a new pipeline starts supplying extra gas from the Rashidpur gas field.
The 30 inch wide Manohardi-Dhanua gas pipeline was commissioned yesterday, nearly a year after it was partly constructed under Gas Transmission Company Ltd, a subsidiary of Petrobangla.
Sources said two segments of this pipeline had to cross two rivers. The tender for installation of the river crossing was awarded only earlier this year though the pipeline's remaining installation was completed before.
“Now that the pipeline started operation, we expect some improvement in gas supply, if not a major improvement,” a Petrobangla official said.
To see the actual benefits from it, the new line would be assessed within a day or two of its operation, said Petrobangla officials.
Amidst severe shortfall in gas supply in the country, Petrobangla failed to increase supply in the last two years although the agency spelled out some new large scale gas prospects during the period.
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