Aimed at boosting gas production from the existing gas fields, Petrobangla, the state run gas exploration company is set to drill 10 new wells to produce 100 mmcf gas more by this year.
Bapex has taken up a vigorous augmentation plan to increase gas production from its existing fields through drilling new wells.
'We would produce 25 to 30 mmcf gas more from Fenchuganj, 15 mmcf from Sundalpur, 20 mmcf from Koilashtila, 20 mmcf from Saldanodi and 15 to 20 from Samutang by the end of this year,' the Petrobangla chairman, Hossain Monsur, told the nes agency on Saturday.
He said the state run agency had successfully increased more than 170 mmcf gas last year through repairing, casing and changing tubes of the wells of Habiganj 11 and same quantity from Titas 12.
'Our plan is to produce 3300mmcf gas per day by the end of 2013 and for that we will drill 34 new wells by this time,' the chairman said.
Petrobangla presently produces around 2200mmcf gas against the demand of 2600 mmcf gas per day.
Petrobnagla chairman said, 'Gasprom, the Russian oil and gas company will drill 10 new wells in the country to increase the gas production and install a compressor that would help to increase gas supply in Chittagong areas by the end of this year.'
Bapex managing director Murtuza Farouk Ahmed said Bapex repaired well 12 of Titas and augmented well 11 of Habiganj last year. Well 12 of Titas has suspended its production due to water rush for the last two years, however, these two wells are now producing around 35 mmcf gas per day.
Bapex MD said they are hopeful of increasing gas production in coming days as a new rig would be included in their equipment list.
'We could go for more exploration work when we receive new rig, we could add this one by next month,' Hossain Monsur said.
Petrobangla has increased its gas production by 180 mmcfd (million cubic feet per day) from the Bapex gas fields.
'We are now producing 1991 to 2200 mmcf gas per day, which is 200 mmcf more than that of April last,' a high official of Petrobangla said.
The high official said no exploration work has taken place in the last ten years in the gas sector, so the gas production has failed to meet the national demand. 'Petrobnagla is now managing the situation on ad-hoc basis through taking some augmentation plan in different discovered fields.'
Hossain Monsur said, 'We have a plan to increase gas production from IOC's fields also as we need more gas to meet the huge demand of gas in power and industrial sectors.'
Source : New Age
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