We put a lot of cyber ink into the German, Australian, US, Chinese, Indian, Chilean, and Japanese solar energy revolutions. However, I think the Bangladeshi solar revolution is one we don’t write about enough. One of the biggest reasons for that is probably that it doesn’t compare to the others on a total capacity basis. However, that doesn’t mean the market isn’t huge.
In July, we did write about a $78.4 million World Bank loan offered to the Bangladeshi government to finance 480,000 solar home systems. Assuming 5.6 people per household (that’s apparently the average), that’s solar power for 2.688 million people. However, this isn’t the beginning of Bagladesh’s solar revolution at all.
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The governemnt has for the first time decided to set the domestic gas tariffs in line with the costs of production following requests from international oil companies for an increase, a former senior Petrobangla official told Platts Monday, October 20.
The Energy and Mineral Resources Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, or MPEMR, asked Petrobangla earlier this month to propose an increase in the gas tariff by calculating upstream costs, former Petrobangla chairman Hussain Monsur said.
“We have started cal...
Chevron Bangladesh expects its natural gas output to have increased 25.17% year on year to 1.492 Bcf/d by the start of 2015, following the inauguration of the Bibiyana gas plant expansion project in November, Petrobangla chairman Hussain Monsur told Platts Thursday.
Chevron plans to increase natural gas output gradually from the Bibiyana gas field -- the country's largest with an average output of 850,000 Mcf/d from 17 producing gas wells -- from November, Monsur said.
In July 2012, Chevron announced a ...
KPI is seeking the required infrastructure in the project site including land an...
