Petrobangla is going to construct a land-based terminal for storage of liquefied natural gas (LNG) at Matarbari in Moheshkhali Island under Cox's Bazar district.
The imported LNG will store in the terminal to use regularly in all season of the year. Presently, LNG is imported in ship and it is anchored at jetty at Matarbari. Later, the authorities concerned supply LNG from the floating vessel directly to the pipeline of Petrobangla.
Now, there is no scope of storage of LNG in the country. If the arrival of ship is delayed, the country usually plunges into shortage of LNG.
In order to remove the critical situation, Petrobangla has taken up a project to build a land-based LNG terminal at Matarbari to keep its supply normal.
Petrobangla sources said the storage capacity of the terminal is 1000 million cft of LNG.
