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...

An innovative web-based computer model to help one of the world’s most densely populated countries get to grips with its energy needs has been developed by the University. Economic growth is expected to drive up demand for energy in Bangladesh but there are dwindling domestic reserves of conventional fuels. An open, interactive computer model will enable policy makers in Bangladesh – or anyone else – to consider different approaches to the country’s energy policy for the next 35 years. It allows users to experiment with a range of ene...