Kailashtila to supply 20 mmcfd gas from May 10: Nasrul
PBC News: Sylhet Gas Fields Limited (SGFL), a government-owned major gas company, is set to supply around 20 million cubic feet of gas per day (mmcfd) to the national grid from May 10.
He said after extraction from the seventh well of Kailashtila Gas Field in Sylhet it will be possible to extract 17-19 million cubic feet of gas from the field from May 10.
“I shared a good news regarding gas supply just before the Eid. Our state-owned Sylhet Gas Field Limited has discovered about 20 million cubic feet gas (per day),” Nasrul said on his facebook page.
Meanwhile, the ministry issued a press release and said that about 17-19 MMCFD gas and 187 barrel of condensates was confirmed through a work-over process by logging, perfection and testing in the lower gas sand zone of the Koilashtila gas field.
It expected that the current zone of the gas field will continue gas production for next several years, the ministry said, adding, the remaining recoverable gas reserves in the Koilashtila field is 758 billion cubic feet which could be gradually produced through different wells.
The state minister said that the gas exploration activities have been increased while initiatives have been taken to conduct both horizontal and vertical drillings.
“It will yield more results if deep drillings are possible to conduct,” he added.
Nasrul said Koilashtila gas field is one of the five gas fields, which was purchased by Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on August 9, 1975.
