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12.5mmcfd gas to enter grid today, 55m more in 4 months
BSS, Dhaka
Published: 19 Sep 2026, 12:00 AM
About 12.5 million cubic feet of gas per day (MMCFD) will be added to the national grid today from a well in the Titas Gas Field, operated by Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited (BGFCL).
In addition, about 55mmcfd of gas is expected to be added to the grid from four more wells in Titas and Bakhrabad gas fields within the next three to four months.
This gas is being added to the national grid as a result of initiatives to drill new wells and develop existing gas fields aimed at increasing supply from local sources in line with the commitments of the BNP government.
BGFCL officials said drilling operations for the Titas-28 well have already been completed while Titas-29, 30, and 31, as well as Bakhrabad-11, are underway.
Once work on these wells is completed, it will be possible to supply about 67.5mmcfd of additional gas to the national grid within the next three to four months, they said.
BGFCL General Manager (Operations) Engineer Md Ashraful Alam said that State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Aninda Islam Amit is expected to inaugurate the Titas-28 well today.
“Immediately following the inauguration, the well will be connected to the national grid. This will help increase gas supply from domestic sources, reducing the pressure caused by import dependency,” he said.
Engineer AKM Jasim Uddin, project director of the “Drilling of 4 Appraisal-cum-Development Wells in Titas and Kamta Fields” project, told BSS that the drilling of the Titas-28 well was completed about a month ago.
“The well has a depth of about 13,000 feet. It will be connected to the national grid immediately after the inauguration,” he said.
He said that drilling operations for wells Titas-28, 29, 30, and Kamta-2 were initiated at a cost of Tk800 crore.
Among those, Jasim Uddin said that the Titas-28 well is set to go into production today and there are plans to expedite work on the other wells too and supply gas to the national grid.
Md Mahmudul Nawab, director of the Deep Exploration Gas Well Drilling Project of BGFCL, said that drilling for the Titas-31 deep exploration well began on 19 April this year.
Barring any unforeseen geological complications, work on Titas-31 is expected to be completed within the next two to three months, Nawab said.
Upon successful completion, the well could supply about 15mmcfd of gas daily to the national grid, he said.
Besides, there are plans to complete work on Titas-30 within the next three to four months.
BGFCL expects to extract about 10 to 15mmcfd of gas daily from this well.
According to BGFCL officials, following the completion of Titas-31, drilling operations for the Bakhrabad gas field’s deep well No-11 are scheduled to begin. Successful drilling and testing could enable a daily supply of about 10mmcfd of gas from Bakhrabad-11 to the national grid.
In total, there is a potential to get up to 45 million cubic feet of gas daily from Titas wells 29, 30, and 31, and about 10mmcfd from Bakhrabad-11.
If an additional 12.5mmcfd of gas from Titas-28 is included, it may be possible to supply a maximum of about 67.5mmcfd to the national grid from the five wells, they said.