Nadampur High School, one of 17 educational institutions that receive support under Chevron’s Quality Education Support Initiative, was recently recognized by the Sylhet Education Board as the Best Secondary School in Nabiganj Upazila (under Habiganj District). The school administration took this opportunity to celebrate this honor with Chevron Bangladesh President Kevin Lyon at a function recently, said a press release. When Lyon arrived, he was felicitated at a local high-school near the Bibiyana gas ...

India and Bangladesh have agreed to open ways for private sector partnership to swap electricity alongside existing government-level cooperation, officials said on Friday as power secretaries of the two countries concluded a two-day meeting in Dhaka. “We are already engaged in the government level (cooperation in powers sector) and now the two countries agreed to allow private sector partnership in this sector,” a Bangladeshi energy ministry spokesman said. His comments came as the Joint Steering Committee on the Power Sector led by Power Secr...

The Power Development Board (BPDB) is reportedly planning to construct a gas and furnace oil-fuelled power plant in Khulna. Planned to be built in Goalpara, the facility will produce 200MW-300MW, and is estimated to cost between BDT25bn ($316.3m) and BDT30bn ($379.5m). A BPDB official was quoted by Dhaka Tribune as saying: "Setting up a new plant was not in the government's plan but two plants in Khulna's Goalpara, which were once known as the power house of the district, turned unusable allegedly because of negligence and lack of monitoring. "This...

Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) today signed an agreement (MoU) with Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation for export of products through the proposed Indo-Bangladesh pipeline. The MoU provides for export of petroleum products from NRL’s marketing terminal in Siliguri to Bangladesh Petroleum’s depot at Parbatipur in Bangladesh through the proposed ‘Indo-Bangla Friendship Pipeline (IBFPL)’ of 130 km length and capacity of one MMTPA, an NRL release said here. The pipeline would be implemented through a joint venture company formed by NRL and...

Bangladesh Petroleum Corp (BPC) has issued an international tender to sell 170,000 barrels of naphtha for May 24-26 loading from Chittagong, a company official said on Tuesday. The tender will close on May 5, with validity up to May 12. The offer came after Asian naphtha crack fell to $99 a tonne on Monday, as expectations of high supplies coming to the east next month from Europe pushed it lower for the third straight session. State-owned BPC sold a cargo of the same size to Unipec at premiums of $0.39 a barrel to Singapore quotes in February, ...