UNB: Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Ltd (BGFCL) is yet to reach any conclusion over the gas reserve at the Well-1 of the Habiganj gas field which started its test production on August 5.
On completion of the work-over job, the Well-1 is now producing 15-16 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) on an experimental basis.
BGFCL, a subsidiary of state-owned Petrobangla and also the country’s largest gas production company, has six gas fields under its operation — Titas, Habiganj, Bakhrabad, Narsingdi, Meghna and Kamta.
The company, which produces 817 mmcfd gas, some 31 percent of the country’s total gas, from its gas fields, appointed Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex), another subsidiary of Petrobangla, for the work-over job.
BGFCL Managing Director Engineer Md Taufiqur RahmanTapu informed that the test operation of the Well-1 will continue for a month and then Bapex will remove its rig and the company take over the well’s operation permanently and operate it on a regular basis.
He noted that the Well-1 had two layers gas with the first one exhausted a few years back. The first gas layer containing sand was located at the depth between 1399 and 1676 metres from the surface while the second layer stayed at the depth between 3015 and 3021 metres.