KrisEnergy (SGX:SK3) has completed a 2D seismic exploration programme offshore Bangladesh. The 3,146 kilometre survey of the SS-11 exploration block took 22 days to complete. “The existing 2D data sets were acquired in the mid-1970s and this programme will provide higher resolution data to confirm existing prospects and leads and assess the overall prospectivity of the block,” said Chris Gibson-Robinson, director of exploration and production. “It will also help us determine potential locations for a planned 3D seismic programme, to ...

Bangladesh’s fuel oil imports are expected to grow 15 percent to 1.5 million tonnes in 2015, supported by increased demand for power generation, energy officials said on Tuesday. The trend contrasts with Asia as a whole, where fuel oil demand is in structural decline. State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corp (BPC) will import 900,000 tonnes, while privately-owned power plants will import nearly 600,000, according to energy ministry projections. That compares with 800,000 tonnes and 500,000 tonnes, respectively, last year, BPC officials sa...

Bangladesh will lower the sulphur content of all its gasoil imports from January next year, in line with a global trend towards cleaner fuel, having moved in that direction from this month, energy officials said on Wednesday. The country will only import gasoil with 500 parts-per-million (ppm) sulphur from 2016 and will no longer take the 2,500 ppm grade, a senior official of the Bangladesh Petroleum Corp (BPC) told Reuters. The state-owned company, the country’s sole importer of gasoil, has already started importing cleaner gasoil this y...

Coal-dependent industries in neighbouring Bangladesh have been badly affected in view of the ongoing ban imposed by a green tribunal on unscientific rat-hole coal mining in Meghalaya, officials said here. Bangladesh officials confirmed this at the first-ever bilateral meeting of the deputy commissioners/district magistrates of Meghalaya (India) and Bangladesh held in the state capital here. Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the meeting, Deputy Commissioner of Kurigram district of Bangladesh A B M Azad said, “We are badly suffe...

NTPC, India's biggest electricity generator, will invite tenders this month for the construction of a $1.2 billion, joint venture power project to be built in Bangladesh. The coal-fired 1,320 MW plant, expected to become operational by December 2018, is aimed at meeting Bangladesh's growing energy requirements. "We hope to award the construction project in June and work will start soon after," NTPCBSE -0.93 % chairman Arup Roy Choudhury said. The company has appointed Fichtner Consulting Engineers and is selecting a consultant to help in sourcing coal...