List of natural gas fields in Bangladesh

As of August 2021, there are 28 natural gas fields in Bangladesh. ^[1] The first gas field was discovered at Haripur, Sylhet in 1955 and the last gas field was discovered in the 2017 at Bhola. ^[2] Titas gas field is the largest natural gas field in Bangladesh. It was discovered by the Pakistan Shell Oil Company in Brahmanbaria in the 1962. The first gas transmission was started in 1957.

List

natural gas field

No.	Name	Year	Location	discovered by	Total reserves (in Trillion Cubic Feet)	Extractable (in Trillion Cubic Feet)	Extract (in Trillion Cubic Feet)	remaining (in Trillion Cubic Feet)
1	Haripur gas field	1955	Sylhet	Burmah Oil	0.444	0.266	0.158	0.108
2	Chhatak Gas Field	1959 [3]	Sunamganj	Burmah Oil	1.900	1.140	0.029	1.113
3	Rashidpur gas field	1960	Habiganj	Pakistan Shell Oil Company	2.242	1.309	0.080	1.227
4	Kailashtila gas field	1962	Sylhet	Pakistan Shell Oil Company	3.657	2.529	0.108	2.421
5	Titas gas field	1962	Brahmanbaria	Pakistan Shell Oil Company	4.132	2.100	0.353	1.747
6	Habiganj gas field	1963	Habiganj	Pakistan Shell Oil Company	3.669	1.895	0.567	1.328
7	Semutang gas field	1969	Khagrachhari	OGDC	0.164	0.098		0.098
8	Bakhrabad gas field	1969	Comilla	Pakistan Shell Oil Company	1.432	0.867	0.501	0.366
9	Kutubdia gas field	1977	Cox's Bazar	Union Oil	0.780	0.468		0.468
10	Begumganj gas field	1977	Noakhali District	Petrobangla	0.025	0.014		0.014
11	Beanibazar gas field	1981	Sylhet	Petrobangla	0.243	0.113		0.113
12	Feni gas field	1981	Feni District	Petrobangla	0.132	0.080	0.036	0.044
13	Kamta gas field	1981	Gazipur	Petrobangla	0.325	0.195	0.021	0.174
14	Jalalabad gas field	1989	Sylhet	simiter	1.500	0.900		0.900
15	Kulaura gas field	1989	Moulvibazar	Petrobangla	0.350	0.210		0.210
16	Meghna gas field	1990	Brahmanbaria	Petrobangla	0.194	0.126	0.004	0.080
17	Narsingdi gas field	1990	Narsingdi	Petrobangla
18	Shahbazpur gas field	1995	Bhola	BAPEX	0.504	0.333		0.333
19	Sangu gas field	1996	Chittagong	Cairn Energy	1.031	0.848
20	Salda gas field	1996	Brahmanbaria	BAPEX	0.200	0.140
21	Moulvibazar gas field	1997	Moulvibazar	UNICOL	0.147	0.110		0.110
22	Bibiyana gas field	1998	Habiganj	UNICOL	2.4	1.77	1.77
23	Lalmai gas field	2005	Comilla	Tallo
24	Bangura gas field	2005	Comilla	BAPEX	0.457
25	Sundalpur gas field	2011	Noakhali	BAPEX
26	Sunetra gas field	2011	Sunamganj, Netrokona	BAPEX
27	Srikail gas field	2012	Comilla	BAPEX
28	Pabna gas field	2017	Mubarakpur, Sathiya, Pabna	BAPEX
29	Bhola north-1	2017	Shahbajpur, Bhola District	BAPEX	1.5
30	Jokigonj	2021	Jokigonj, Sylhet	BAPEX	0.048

See also

• List of countries by natural gas production
• List of natural gas fields

References

1. UNB, Dhaka (9 August 2021). "Bangladesh announces 28th gas field in Sylhet's Zakiganj". The Daily Star. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
2. "ইয়াছিন গ্যাসক্ষেত্রের সন্ধান". bonikbarta. Retrieved 17 Oct 2018.
3. Sirajul Islam, ed. (Jan 2003). banglapedia (in Bengali). Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh. ISBN   984-32-0576-6 . Retrieved 7 April 2020.