Approximately 50 billion cubic feet of gas reserves worth about Tk 3,600 crore has been found in a new well (No 10) of the country's oldest gas field at Haripur in Sylhet district.
Mohammad Mizanur Rahman, Director of Sylhet Gas Field Limited (SGFL), on Sunday said, "Gas was found in this new well. We think that 15 million cubic feet of gas can be extracted daily from this new well."
Earlier, the excavation work on the well started last June. Chinese company Sinopec carried out the excavation at a cost of Tk149 crore. According to SGFL, the well has about 50 billion cubic feet of gas reserves.
SGFL General Manager (Operation) Engineer Abdul Jalil Pramanik said, "It will take another six months to start producing gas from this well."
Officials concerned said that the
monetary value of gas stored in the well is around Tk3600 crore.
Earlier, on 22 November, gas supply to the National Gas Grid started from the previously abandoned well no 2 at Sylhet's Kailastila. Around 7 million cubic feet of gas are being added to the national grid daily from the well.
According to sources, now there are a total of nine gas wells in the Haripur gas field. Gas was first discovered in Haripur, Sylhet in 1955.
At present, there are five gas fields under SGFL - Haripur Gas Field, Rashidpur Gas Field, Chatak Gas Field, Kailashtila Gas Field and Biyanibazar Gas Field. Among them, the Chatak Gas Field is abandoned. Of the rest, 14 wells are currently producing about 105 million cubic feet of gas per day.
Sources said the government has planned to explore, dig and re-dig to 46 wells in the country to increase gas production to solve the energy crisis. These excavations are expected to be completed by 2025. The wells are expected to increase gas production by 618 million cubic feet.
As part of this plan drilling and re-drilling of 14 wells under SGFL is underway. Three out of Sylhet's 14 wells started production last year. Extraction from well no 2 of Kailashtila started this month.
Before this, three abandoned wells named Sylhet-8, Kailashtila-7 and Biyanibazar-1 under SGFL were re-excavated last year. From these wells, 16 to 18 million cubic feet of gas is being supplied daily to the national line.
