Power, gas situation may improve in 2 days

State minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid assured that the ongoing disruption in gas supply and power outages across the country may improve within the next two days.

Speaking to reporters on Sunday at the Secretariat, he added, “However, it might take around 10-12 days to get the situation back to normal as the pipeline of a Floating Storage and Regasification Unit (FSRU) was damaged by Cyclone Mocha.”

Hamid said the damaged FSRU will be ready to inject regasified LNG within the next 12 days.

The country is experiencing frequent load shedding as electricity production fell due to gas supply suspension from the floating LNG terminal. Countrywide load shedding was over 2,000MW on Saturday.

As a precaution of Cyclone Mocha, gas supply from floating LNG terminals was suspended at 11pm last Friday, and took the floating regasification facilities to the deep sea.

Before the supply suspension, around 650 million cubic feet of gas from the LNG terminals was added to the national grid that transmitted 2750 mmcf of gas on Thursday.

But due to a fall in gas supply, electricity production has faced a big hit that has impacted power supply across the country, particularly in Chattogram, Cumilla and Dhaka.