Gas supply from Titas-28 well starts flowing into national grid

Gas supply from Titas Gas Field’s Well No. 28 in Brahmanbaria has started flowing into the national grid.

State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Anindya Islam Amit inaugurated the gas supply operation on Saturday (19 September) afternoon. 

The new well will add 12.5 million cubic feet of gas to the national grid every day.

Drilling of Titas-28 began on 15 December last year in Suhilpur area of Sadar upazila and was completed on 27 May. Trial gas supply from the well to the national grid began on 19 June.

Gas worth around Tk200 crore has already been supplied from the well, officials said.

Jasim Uddin Munna, project director of Titas-28, said the well has a wellhead shut-in pressure of 3,600 psi and a flowing pressure of 2,100 psi.

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He said the well is expected to produce gas for a long period. At present, 12.5 million cubic feet of gas will be extracted daily and supplied to the national grid.

After inaugurating the gas supply operation, State Minister Anindya Islam Amit said the government had planned to drill 150 wells by 2023 and 29 wells have already been drilled as part of the initiative.

He said the launch of gas supply from Titas-28 at a rate of 12.5 million cubic feet per day was part of the initiative.

“These small-scale initiatives will help bridge the gap between gas demand and supply by 2030,” he said, adding that gas from the well would play an important role in providing relief to consumers.

Brahmanbaria-3 MP Khaled Hossain Mahbub, Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Division Secretary Md Ziaul Haque, Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited Managing Director Abdul Jalil Pramanik and others attended the inaugural ceremony.