Natural Gas in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has always been considered a natural gas rich country. It is largely available in the eastern part of the country extending from greater Sylhet down to greater Comilla, Noakhali and Chittagong. It has also been discovered offshore in the Bay of Bengal.
Natural gas plays an important role in the country 's economy. It is an environment friendly fuel, which undergoes clean and odorless combustion. It is widely used as fuel for domestic (cooking and heating), industrial (metallurgical, ceramic, glass, bread and biscuits, power stations, cement works, factory process steam boilers, etc) and agricultural (drying, heating, steam boilers) use. LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG), LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG), COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS (CNG) are obtained from natural gas and are used as fuels in domestic, industrial and agricultural applications. In chemical industries natural gas is used as feedstock for the manufacture of fertilizers, plastics, resins, rubbers, and various chemicals such as carbon black, detergents, ammonia, nitric acid, weed killers, etc.
Natural gas from Bangladesh is very pure, with about 95% to 99% methane and almost no sulphur. The average compositions are 97.33% methane, 1.72-% ethane, 0.35% propane and 0.19% higher hydrocarbons. Gas in most of the fields is dry, but in a few fields it is wet, with considerable amounts of condensate, eg at Beanibazar (16 bbl/mmcfg), Jalalabad (15 bbl/mmcfg), and Kailashtila (13 bbl/mmcfg). The total condensate reserve in the country is estimated at about 65 million barrels.
GAS reserve of Bangladesh:
In Bangladesh, natural gas is one of the important sources of energy that accounts for 75% of the commercial energy of the country. Till now 23 gas fields have been discovered in the country. The estimated recoverable proved and probable reserve of the 23 gas fields is 28 TCF. Out of which, as of June 2009, a total of 8.37 TCF gas has already been produced and as such the left over proved and probable
Natural gas plays an important role in the country 's economy. It is an environment friendly fuel, which undergoes clean and odorless combustion. It is widely used as fuel for domestic (cooking and heating), industrial (metallurgical, ceramic, glass, bread and biscuits, power stations, cement works, factory process steam boilers, etc) and agricultural (drying, heating, steam boilers) use. LIQUEFIED PETROLEUM GAS (LPG), LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS (LNG), COMPRESSED NATURAL GAS (CNG) are obtained from natural gas and are used as fuels in domestic, industrial and agricultural applications. In chemical industries natural gas is used as feedstock for the manufacture of fertilizers, plastics, resins, rubbers, and various chemicals such as carbon black, detergents, ammonia, nitric acid, weed killers, etc.
Natural gas from Bangladesh is very pure, with about 95% to 99% methane and almost no sulphur. The average compositions are 97.33% methane, 1.72-% ethane, 0.35% propane and 0.19% higher hydrocarbons. Gas in most of the fields is dry, but in a few fields it is wet, with considerable amounts of condensate, eg at Beanibazar (16 bbl/mmcfg), Jalalabad (15 bbl/mmcfg), and Kailashtila (13 bbl/mmcfg). The total condensate reserve in the country is estimated at about 65 million barrels.
GAS reserve of Bangladesh:
In Bangladesh, natural gas is one of the important sources of energy that accounts for 75% of the commercial energy of the country. Till now 23 gas fields have been discovered in the country. The estimated recoverable proved and probable reserve of the 23 gas fields is 28 TCF. Out of which, as of June 2009, a total of 8.37 TCF gas has already been produced and as such the left over proved and probable