Two compressor stations await inauguration

BRAHMANBARIA, Apr 6 (UNB): Low pressure of gas which disrupts its supply from the gas fields of the country's eastern zone to Dhaka, Khulna and Rajshahi is expected to ease soon as the construction of two gas compressor stations in Brahmanbaria and Tangail has been completed.
Sources at the state-owned Gas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL) the construction of the two compressor stations was initiated by GTCL in 2011 under a Tk 15 billion (1,500 crore) project jointly financed by the government and the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
The project is aimed at improving gas supply and removing the crisis of low gas pressure in Dhaka, Khulna and Rajshahi.
Gas extracted from distant gas fields in the eastern region of the country is supplied through two pipelines to the Ashuganj Manifold Station of GTCL, and then to Brahmanbaria, Dhaka, Chittagong and Rajshahi regions through four pipelines, but it cannot be supplied at the expected rate due to low gas pressure.