Petrobangla (Bangladesh Oil, Gas
and Mineral Corporation), a 100 per cent state owned corporation, has the
primary responsibility for the natural gas industry in Bangladesh. Petrobangla
is under the direction of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources; it comprises
five groups of companies:
An exploration company:
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration
Company;
Production companies:
Bangladesh Gas Fields Company,
Sylhet Gas Fields Company;
Transmission and distribution companies:
Titas Gas Transmission and
Distribution Company, Bakhrabad Gas System, Jalalabad Gas Transmission and
Distribution System, Western Zone Gas Supply Co. (Poschim Anchal Gas Bitaran
Company, WESGAS, a new company for distribution of gas in the western part of
Bangladesh);
A compressed natural gas company:
Rupantarita Prakritik Gas
Company;
Mining companies:
Barapukuria Coal Mining Company,
Maddhapara Hard Rock Company.
Just as the gas fields in
Bangladesh are in the eastern part of the country, so too are the transmission
and distribution pipelines. There is no natural gas supply to the western part
of the nation, although in recent times finished Bangabandhu Bridge over the
Jamuna River carries a pipeline that now opens the possibility of expansion to
the west, and the Prime Minister has formally inaugurate the gas supply to the
Western Zone. The current pipeline network includes 1,188km.of transmission
lines and 8,328 km. of distribution lines. Major cities in the eastern part of
the country served by the gas network include Sherpur, Jamalpur, Sylhet,
Tangail, Dhaka, Chandpur, Comilla, Noakhali and Chittagong. While Titas Gas,
Bakhrabad Gas and Jalalabad Gas are focused on linking lo- cal gas fields to
regional transmission and distribution, the recently created Gas Trans- mission
Company is responsible for developing the state transmission grid.
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