Vehicles waiting in long queues due to low gas pressure at a CNG filling station at Mohakhali on Wednesday, as several areas in and around the capital experienced a gas supply shortage. — FE Photo
Some areas in and around the capital are experiencing short-supply of gas, hurting industrial production, normal household activity and car refueling at filling stations.
Officials said an abrupt fall in gas production caused the gas crunch at the user-ends.
Ashulia industrial belt, Mirpur and Narayanganj were the worst-affected areas, a senior official of the Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd (TGTDCL) told the FE Wednesday.
The gas official, however, assured that the supply of the fuel would be normal within the next couple of days with the increase in supply.
Many CNG (compressed natural gas) stations are getting lower-than- expected gas pressure in filling vehicles with the gas.
"It now takes pretty longer time to fill CNG in a vehicle compared to that of few days back mostly due to lower gas pressure," a technician at a gas station in the capital told the FE.
Vehicles have to wait in long queues to get in for refueling, he said.
Country's overall natural gas production is currently hovering around 2,600 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd), if not any major disruption, against a known demand for over 3,000 mmcfd.
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