SYLHET, June 3: Production on the newly-drilled gas well at the state-run Sylhet Gas Fields Company Limited (SGFL) will begin in September this year, an official source informed.
Harun Ur Rashid Molla, a General Manager of the SGFL, also the Project Director, told this correspondent yesterday that drilling of the 'appraisal-cum-development well for well -- 7' at the Kailashtila Gas Field in Golapganj upozila was completed 3 months ago by the state-run Bapex. However, it would be used as a gas well as oil wasn't found, he added.
"Now we would lay a 1.6 kilometre pipeline to connect the well (KTL-7) with the processing plant. Works on the pipeline installation would begin in a month," Harun informed, and added, "We hope to start gas production in September this year."
Earlier, on September 17 in 2013, the Prime Minister during her visit to Golapganj formally laid foundation of the Tk 220 cr-drilling project. However, the drilling schedule had to be deferred several times for technical reasons.
"We would produce about 10 million cubic feet gas per day from the well to supply to the national grid," the official added, and "It has 658 billion cubic feet of gas reserve.
In 2011-12, Bapex had carried out 3D surveys in Kailashtila, Rashidpur and Haripur and found oil and gas reserves in several zones below the gas structures in Kailashtila and Haripur and gas only in Rashidpur. iqbal1527@hotmail.com
New Sylhet gas well to start production in September
From A Correspondent | Published: June 04, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00
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