Well-5 at Kailashtila on test run
After a closure for about a year, Well-5 at Location-1 of Kailashtila Gas Field at Golapganj in Sylhet began test gas production yesterday as repair work of the well completed last week.
"Test run of the gas well will continue for two more days. If everything goes well, we will start commercial production from the well in a few days," the DGM of Sylhet Gas Fields Company Limited (SGFL) Zahirul Islam, also the in-charge of Kailashtila Gas Field, told this correspondent yesterday evening.
Private company HLS Ltd and state-run Bapex conducted the remedial work of the well last week under the supervision of the SGFL experts and made it ready for production.
Now the well will produce 15 mmcfd gas everyday for supplying to the national grid, the official said.
Drilled by the state-run Bapex in 2006, the Well-5 started gas production in September 2006.
It ran almost without any major trouble till October last year when water and sand started coming out from the well, compelling the authorities to seal it.
Six gas wells in two locations of Kailashtila Gas Field under SGFL, a concern of Petrobangla, supply about 100 mmcfd gas daily to the national grid. Besides, condensates like petrol, diesel and NGL are being produced as by-products. The SGFL also produces LPG from the NGL, extracted as by-product from Kailashtila wells.
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