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Country’s total gas stock stands at 11.46 Tcf: Nasrul Hamid
SANGSAD BHABAN, Feb 11, 2019 (BSS) – State Minister for Power, Energy and
Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid today said the country’s total gas stock is
11.46 trillion cubic feet(TCF).
“With the stock of 1.006 TCF gas which was recently invented in Bhola
district, country’s total gas stock now stands at 11.46 TCF till January 1,
this year,” said the State Minister while responding to a query placed by
opposition lawmaker M Rustam Ali Farazi of Pirojpur-3 in the Jatiya Sangsad
here.
The country’s total available gas is not adequate compared to its
increasing demand, he said the house with Deputy Speaker M Fazley Rabbi Mia
in the chair.
He said invention and exploring of new gas field is now underway to fulfil
the rising demand of gas, adding that five international oil companies are
being involved solely and jointly to invent oil and gas in the seabed.
Besides, the government has taken various initiatives for attracting the
investment of the foreign companies to the oil-gas exploring programme in the
sea region, the state minister added.
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