The government will explore additional fossil fuel in the depleting gas fields to reduce dependency on costly imported Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG).
The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has already instructed the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources to invite Expression of Interest (EoI) for identifying the depleted gas fields and adopt new technology to increase gas production from those gas fields.
The direction came at a meeting at the PMO with PM’s power and energy adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury in the meeting.
According to Petrobangla, gas reserve in four gas fields, including Sundalpur, Salda, Samutang and Rupganj have fully or partially depleted. Gas production from Samutang and Sundalpur gas fields have been shut down, officials said.
Output from some other state-owned gas fields is depleting quickly, officials said.
