State
oil gas exploration company Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production
Company Limited (BAPEX) have discovered a new gas well at Srikail in Cumilla
district. The newly discovered Srikail East-1 gas field is located in
Muradnagar upazila of Comilla. It is the country's 28th gas field. BAPEX hopes
to extract 20 million cubic feet of gas daily from this gas field. BAPEX
started digging for gas wells here on October 28 last year. BAPEX sees this as
a hope for the country's natural gas.
BAPEX
engineers confirmed the gas level on 03 March 2020, Tuesday after a long
four-month excavation work. About two years later a new gas well was discovered
in the country. Now in the field the amount of water with gas and the pressure
of the gas are monitoring and within few days the task of lifting will be started.
As per provided NEWS on various newspapers, the gas pressure is currently 2,000
psr which is higher than other fields. It will be possible to lift 20 million
cubic feet of gas daily from this gas field which is located at 3,065 meters
beneath the surface. There are process plants nearby. It will be possible to
ensure gas supply only by installing a 10 km pipeline from this well to the
plant.
After
four-month excavation, new gas wells were found under the Srikail gas field. The
state-owned oil gas exploration and leasing company BAPEX is happy to find a new
gas well in the country. The general public and the government are happy to
find new gas amid disappointment over reports of gas leakage in the country.
The
well under the Srikail gas field is under the Sreekail East-1 exploration well,
the Rupkalpa-1 Khanan Prakalpa located in Bangura, Hajipur, of Nabinagar
Upazila, Brahmanbaria district. Digging was started from October last year and
the gas started coming out on 2nd March after a pressure test by opening the
well with technical explosive. The test is now being conducted to determine how
much of this gas can be lifted commercially.
Initially,
BAPEX can easily supply 10-12 million cubic feet of gas per day from here which
can be lift up to 20 million cubic feet. As long as the pipeline is pulled up with
the srikail main process plant, the gas of this well will be added to the
national grid. As soon as the government finishes acquiring land and other
materials to build the pipeline, gas from this well will be added to the national
grid.
According
to the BAPEX data, after the three-dimensional geological survey in 2017 and 2018,
BAPEX identified existence of gas at that location. Later on 28 October 2019, they
started digging the project by planting a rig in the agricultural land at
Hajipur village. The excavation was completed on 31 January 2020. After several
tests, the gas pressure test was started from 2nd March with the experimental
pipe under fire.
BAPEX
could not find any new gas fields or wells in the country for last 2 years. The
officials of this organization are now very happy to discover the well after
such a long time. The pressure and volume of gas in the well has already
stirred hope. They think gas will be accessible to the general public as soon
as government allocation is available.
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