Chevron Starts Gas Production from Two Bangladeshi Wells

US energy major Chevron has commenced natural gas production from two wells in Bangladesh, Reuters reported Sunday citing government statement.

Initial production will be around 130 million cubic feet of gas per day from the Jalalabad field, located 280 km from the capital Dhaka, the new agency reported.

“This is the culmination of a long drilling campaign that Chevron started in November 2014,” the ministry of power, energy and mineral resources said in a statement on Sunday. Another well at the field is expected to begin production at the start of next year.

Chevron is the largest producer of natural gas in Bangladesh, supplying approximately 50 percent of the country’s natural gas consumption. The company operates three fields—Bibiyana, Jalalabad and Moulavi Bazar—under production-sharing contracts signed with Petrobangla. 

Discovered in 1989, the Jalalabad gas field first came on-line in 1999.