Gas prospects made gloomy
Fingers pointed at tardy Petrobangla
All the gas burners of this house at Moghbazar are of no use as the gas supply has gone out around noon yesterday and the women resort to wood-fuelled earthen stoves. Residents of the area suffer gas outage every day from 7:00am till evening.Photo: Anisur Rahman
The country will continue to suffer from gas crisis for the next few years as Petrobangla has failed to increase gas production and its capability to supply gas in line with the rising demand.
The shortfall in gas supply now stands at around 500 million cubic feet a day (mmcfd), sufficient to generate power to meet one third of the country's electricity demand.
Domestic users need 130-140 mmcfd gas in the capital but its supply now hovers around 110 mmcfd, said officials of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd.
Titas has been trying to improve gas supply by replacing old and narrow gas lines.
It has replaced around 56 kilometres of pipelines in the city. But there will not be any big improvement in supply unless gas production increases, said an official asking not to be named.
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for how long politicians, ........ corrupt, inefficient and lazy......will fool common Bangladeshis...in the name of
"shonar Bangladesh "....and " Digital Bangladesh"?
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khoda hafez.
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