Bangladesh is expanding domestic gas production through new drilling and workover projects, targeting additional supplies and reduced reliance on imported gas by 2030.
Bangladesh has started supplying an additional 12.5 million cubic feet of gas per day to the national grid from the Titas-28 well in Brahmanbaria, the state minister for power, energy and mineral resources, Anindya Islam Amit, said on Friday.
Speaking at the inauguration of gas production from the well in Brahmanbaria, the minister said the new supply would make it possible to increase gas availability for the industrial and power sectors.
Amit said the government has planned to drill another 150 wells by 2030 as part of efforts to achieve self-sufficiency in the energy sector. He said the government was also seeking to reduce dependence on imported gas by strengthening the capacity of domestic companies.
Engineer Khaled Hossain Mahbub , chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on the Ministry of Commerce, attended the event as a special guest.
As part of the government’s plan to drill 150 wells, five projects of Bangladesh Gas Fields Company Limited, or BGFCL, are currently under way to drill six new wells and carry out workovers on eight closed wells by 2030, with the aim of adding about 106.5 million cubic feet of gas per day to the national grid, the minister said.
He added that another nine new wells and workovers on 12 existing wells are expected to add about 126 million cubic feet per day to the national grid.
As part of the government’s master plan, about 235 million cubic feet of gas per day is expected to be added to the national grid from 19 wells by 2035, he said.
BGFCL is conducting three-dimensional seismic surveys over 875 square kilometres in the Habiganj field and adjoining areas and another 575 square kilometres covering the Bakhrabad, Narsingdi and Meghna fields, for a total of 1,450 square kilometres.
The company is also conducting two-dimensional and three-dimensional seismic surveys over 632 square kilometres northwest of the Titas field and northeast of the Narsingdi field. Projects are being implemented based on the results of these surveys, according to the minister.
BGFCL currently operates six gas fields: Titas, Habiganj, Bakhrabad, Narsingdi, Meghna and Kamta. The Feni gas field was previously under BGFCL until it was handed over to multinational company Niko.
The company carries out seismic surveys, well drilling, gas processing through processing plants, increased gas production through wellhead compressors, collection and marketing of condensate as a by-product and supply of gas to the national grid while maintaining gas quality.
BGFCL produces about 30 percent of Bangladesh’s total domestic gas output, equivalent to 18 percent of the country’s total gas supply, the statement said. Development activities are under way to further increase production.
The Titas-28 well was drilled under a project titled “Drilling of four appraisal-cum-development wells in the Titas and Kamta fields”.
Under a contract signed on April 10, 2025 with CNPC Chuanqing Drilling Engineering Company Ltd. (CCDC) of China, an integrated drilling contractor, drilling of Titas-28 began on Dec. 15, 2025 and reached a depth of 3,601 metres measured depth, or 3,471 metres true vertical depth, on June 19, 2026.
The well is capable of producing 12 million to 13 million cubic feet of gas per day, according to the statement.
The Titas-28 well cost about 200 crore taka to complete.
Ziaul Haque, secretary of the Energy and Mineral Resources Division of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, along with senior officials from Petrobangla and BGFCL, also attended the inauguration.
After the inauguration, Amit inspected the ongoing drilling operations at the Titas-29 and Titas-31 wells.
