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The government has taken the initiative to dig more wells and reactivate the older inactive wells through redigging or workover in the gas fields to curb the ongoing gas shortage in the country.
The authorities concerned have already started the workover of the inactive gas wells, with the aim to re-activate all of them and produce gas within 2024.
According to sources in Sylhet Gas Fields Limited, there are 24 gas wells in Sylhet and 13 of them are oper-ational with a production capacity of 94 million cubic feet per day (MMcf/d).
The rest 11 wells have been inactive for the past four-five years and seven of them are now being repaired.
Meanwhile, the government has also undertaken the initiative to dig seven new wells to tackle the ongoing gas shortage. The digging works will start in June-July, said Sylhet Gas Fields Managing Director Mizanur Rahman.
Sources said that around 160-166 MMcf/d gas would be produced from the seven repaired wells and the seven new wells once they are operational. This will take the total gas production in Sylhet Division to around 260 MMcf/d.
The new gas wells will be situated one each in Sylhet-10, Sylhet-11 and Kailashtilla-8 and 9; two in Ra-shidpur-11 and 13 at the Rashidpur Gas Field in Habiganj; and another one will be dug in Dhupitila.
