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Sangu resumes gas supply at low flow

STAFF CORRESPONDENT, Ctg
Sangu Gas Field here resumed operations yesterday, some 19 hours after an abrupt halt due to a technical glitch at around 4:15pm last Thursday.
But, as the gas supply flow remained below the required level, Karnaphuli Fertiliser Factory (Kafco) and Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Factory (CUFL) that use gas as a raw material could not go back into pro-duction as of 7:30pm yesterday, when this report was filed.
However, the restored supply did enable Raozan Power Plant and Karnaphuli Paper Mills restart normal production.
The shutdown of the gas field on Thursday was soon translated into snapping of the gas supply to different destinations, forcing suspension of operations of different power plants and fertiliser factories in Chittagong. Operated by Cairns Energy PLC under
a production sharing contract the gas field in Block 16 produces around 172 million cubic feet gas per day.
Sources said the production in the gas field resumed at around 11:10am while the client installations started receiving gas supply, though less than normal, since late afternoon.
“Start-up activities have already begun at our factory. But, it is unlikely to go into production even tomorrow [Saturday], as it would require some more time to complete the technical process,” CUFL Operations General Manager Salahuddin told The Daily Star yesterday afternoon.
The thermal power plant at Shikalbaha, too, needs more time to complete the process of returning to production, sources said.
The Block 16 production sharing contract was signed between Cairn Energy PLC, Holland Sea Search Bangladesh BV, state petroleum authority Petrobangla and the government on May 5, 1994. Subsequent successions have resulted in the current joint venture, of which the operator, Cairn Energy Sangu Field Limited, owns 37.5 percent, Cairn Energy Bangladesh Limited 37.5 percent and HBR Energy Inc, a subsidiary of Halliburton Inc, 25 percent. The offshore field started supplying gas extracted from a depth of some 3,500 metres on June 12, 1998.
Sangu gas is carried by a submarine pipeline to an onshore gas processing plant at Salimpur under Sitakunda upazila, some 48 km off the production platform in the Bay of Bengal. The Salimpur plant separates the condensate from the gas stream.
Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation buys and refines the condensate. The dry gas is supplied through the gas pipeline of Bakhrabad Gas System Limited, which is connected with the national grid.