DHAKA, Nov 20, 2025 (BSS) – Petrobangla officials today said some 5 to 6 million cubic feet gas to be extracted from a newly explored well in Sylhet’s Kailashtila gas field is expected to be added daily to national gas grid by next week.

“New gas reserve has been found in Kailashtila-1 gas well in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet after the workover of the first well. Some 5 to 6 mmcfd gas is expected to be added from there in next one week,” Petrobangla spokesman Tariqul Islam Khan told BSS.

He said Patrobangla’s major subsidiary Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) was currently carrying out “workover”, meaning activities on an oil or gas wells to restore or increase production.

Khan, also a deputy general manager of Petrobangla, said, drilling and workover activities were underway on 11 wells including Sylhet-10, Sylhet-11, Rashidpur-11, Srikail-5, Habiganj-5, Kailashtila-1, Beanibazar-2 and Semutang-6.

He said that the Petrobangla has intensified several exploration programmes including work plan of 50 wells drilling and workover by 2025–26 and 100 wells drilling and workover by 2026–28.

According to Petrobangla officials Kailashtila gas field was discovered in 1961 and eight wells were drilled so far.

An average of 28 mmcfd of gas was added to the national grid from four Kailashtila wells in the 2023-24 fisacal and now the newly found well would add an 5 mmcfd.

Sylhet Gas Fields Limited (SGFL) feeds the grid from the wells in the field.

The state-run entity have five gas fields under its purview namely Haripur Gas Field, Kailashtilla Gas Field, Rashidpur Gas Field, Beanibazar Gas Field and Chhatak Gas Field which also produces condensate and NGL, octane, petrol (RON 89), kerosene, diesel and LPG from its 14 gas wells.

Bangladesh's current gas production is around 2201.67 mmcfd while the country consumes 2,900 MMcfd daily with extra gas coming through imports while officials estimated the demand volume to be some 4,000 MMcfd.

Petrobangla officials said since 2023, re-drilling and workover initiatives were taken in the closed Kailashtila wells wells resulting in production of 5.85 mmcfd of gas.

In January this year, the workover project of Kailashtila-1, Rashidpur-3 and Beanibazar-2 wells was undertaken, while re-drilling of Kailashtila-1 well started last August, it said.