Bapex hits new gas layer in Comilla

Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration Company (Bapex), a subsidiary of state-owned Petrobangla, has discovered a new layer of gas in the No 2 well of Srikail gas field in Comilla.
The new layer of gas reserve was detected during test drilling in the well Monday night, said Bapex Managing Director Mortuza Ahmad Faruque.
He said the new gas layer was thicker than the previous one.
"We have got commercially viable gas. We will now need to build a one-kilometre pipeline to connect the field with Ashuganj-Bakhrabad pipeline, which will not take much time," Faruque told The Daily Star yesterday.
He hoped to produce 30 to 35 million cubic feet (mmcf) of gas from the well from upcoming December. The new gas would help ease the chronic gas crisis in Chittagong city, he said.
The new detection came more than two weeks after Bapex hit a natural gas reservoir at Srikail. On July 13, the company found the first layer of gas, which came seven years after a failed attempt in the area.