Gas output from Srikail East-01 likely in Dec

Commercial production of natural gas from the newly-discovered Srikail East-01 onshore structure is expected to start from next December.

The Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex) discovered commercially viable gas on the site, some seven kilometres off the currently-producing Srikail well, this March.

A pipeline is being constructed to bring this gas from Pakhjipur village under Bangora of Cumilla into the national gas grid, said a senior Bapex official.

Work relating to land acquisition and construction of road is also going on, he added.

An estimated 12 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of gas can be added to the grid once the new field initiates commercial operation in December.

The Bapex has estimated that the well might have approximately 70 billion cubic feet of natural gas.

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