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Three new Sangu wells to add to gas supply

ABDULLAH AL MAHMUD, Ctg
Drilling of three new wells -- Nos. 7, 8 and 9 -- on Sangu Alpha Platform has ended that will raise gas production by 105 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) at the country's lone offshore gas field in the Bay of Bengal.
Cairns Energy PLC, which operates Sangu gas filed under the production sharing contract (PSC) for block 16, started drilling of the new wells under the second phase of
development involving $50 million in the middle of November last year.
Well Nos 8 and 9 connected to the onshore gas processing plant have increased the production of Sangu gas to 170 mmcfd from 110. Well No 7 is likely to start operation and be connected to the processing plant by the end of this month, enhancing the Sangu production to over 200 mmcfd, sources said.
The firm that drilled the three wells, Diamond Offshore, is prepar-
ing to leave the site by today.
Sources mentioned that after the discovery of Sangu field in February 1996, Well No 1 was developed next year on Sangu Alpha Platform that stands 110 metres above the seabed. It started supply of gas extracted from a depth of some 3,500 metres on June 12, 1998.
Another five wells -- Nos. 2,3,4,5 and 6 -- were gradually developed in Sangu field, located in the Bay, some
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40 km southwest of the port city of Chittagong.
Well Nos 2, 3 and 4 are still in operation producing around 100 mmcfd of gas, Well No 5 has suspended production and the remaining two could not produce any gas.
A submarine pipeline carries Sangu gas to the onshore processing plant at Salimpur under Sitakunda, some 48 km from the production platform in the Bay. The gas is 'dry' but contains condensate. The dry gas is transported to Bakhrabad gas line of the BGSL (Bakhrabad Gas System Limited), which is connected to the national grid in the north.
Condensate is removed from gas at the processing plant and sold to Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) for refining, sources said.
The processing plant was designed and constructed by Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR), an affiliate of Halliburton Inc. KBR is responsible for the operation of both
the production platform and the processing plant.
The PSC for block 16 was signed among Cairn Energy PLC, Holland Sea Search Bangladesh BV, Petrobangla and the Government of Bangladesh on May 5,1994.
Subsequent successions and changes have resulted in the present joint venture among Cairn Energy Sangu Field Limited, Cairn Energy Bangladesh Ltd. and HBR Energy Inc (a subsidiary of Halliburton Inc).