Drilling operations have begun at the Titas-31 deep exploratory well in Brahmanbaria, as part of efforts to increase domestic gas supply.
Officials expect the well to add around 15 million cubic feet of gas per day to the national grid if exploration proves successful.
Officials from Petrobangla and Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited (BGFCL) inaugurated the spud-in at Nandanpur in Sadar upazila recently.
AKM Mizanur Rahman, director (finance) of Petrobangla, and Md Abdul Jalil Pramanik, managing director of BGFCL, formally launched the drilling work.
The Titas-31 well is being drilled under a project that includes two deep exploratory wells in the Titas and Bakhrabad gas fields. The project is estimated to cost Tk 594.25 crore and is expected to be completed within 210 days.
