Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission would soon ask the country’s 4,200 petrol pumps to apply to it seeking licences for running their busine [ ... ]
Petrobangla wants to reserve the potential Teknaf belt for Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (Bapex) to explore oil and gas with [ ... ]
Natural Gas Value Chain of Bangladesh is in total mess with a very little hope of improvement over the next two remaining years of the present governm [ ... ]
The government, for the first time, moves to search oil and gas in Jessore and Khulna regions to expatiate on oil and gas production, a top official of Petrobangla said.
“Petrobangla will conduct two separate 2-D and 3-D seismic surveys through state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex) to explore oil and gas in the regions for the first time since the country&rs [ ... ]
Power Sector
TNB To Power Up Bangladesh Via US$2.5 Billion Power Plant
Tenaga Nasional Bhd is keen to develop a 1,400-megawatt coal-based power plant in Cox\'s Bazar, Bangladesh worth US$2.5 billion (RM7.525 billion) on a joint-venture basis, to meet the demand for power in the country. Special Envoy (Infrastructure) to India and South Asia, Datuk Seri Samy Vellu revealed that the national utility giant and the Bangladesh Power [...]
Santos, the Australian based oil and gas company, will not drill any exploratory well at Mognama this season, official sources said.To increase gas output from block 16 and thus supply it to the commercial city of Chittagong, government signed an ‘unprecedented’ deal with this company in 2010, but it is yet to yield any result. The port city gets 200 mmcft gas again [...]
Jamuna Oil Company Limited (JOCL) earned Tk 1171 million gross profit and Tk 881.28 million net profit during the first half of the current fiscal year. The profit before and after tax were Tk 549.54 million and Tk 413.53 million respectively in the corresponding period of previous fiscal, sources said.
Jamuna Oil – one of the three fuel oil marketing companies of Bangla [...]
The government on Sunday signed an agreement with India to set up the biggest power station ever, with production capacity of 1320 megawatt (MW).
Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB) struck the deal with India\'s public sector National Thermal Power Company (NTPC). This is the 50th agreement signed by the Awami League-led government to set up power stations in Banglade [...]
Renewable Energy Development Authority Soon In Bangladesh
A bill on formation of a new authority for the promotion of renewable energy across the country may be placed in the current session of parliament, Power Ministry sources said, reports UNB. According to the sources, the Cabinet in its meeting on December 19 last approved in principle a draft law titled \'Renewable Energy Development Authority (SREDA) Act 2011\'. As per the [...]
Bangladesh: Coal-fired Power Station Near Sundarban Condemned
Science activists in the Barisal city on Friday held demonstrations in protest at a government initiative to set up a coal-fired power station with the help of India at a Rampal, just 9km away from Sundarban. They said that the power station would destroy the world’s one of the largest mangrove forests. Bigyan Andolan Mancha, an organisation [...]
How Long Bangladesh Gas Reserve Resource Will Last?
On the evening of 26th January at Creek Prince of Dubai City this writer met an ex Shell Employee who refused to be identified. He worked in Bangladesh before the liberation of Bangladesh .He claimed to have been involved in the discovery of some major gas fields in Bangladesh during that period. We were enjoying festivity of fire of Dubai Festival and cultural shows of differe [...]
Private Sector Power Generation Policy