The facilities include the platform in the Bay of Bengal, sub-sea pipeline and onshore gas processing plant. However, offshore platform remained unused since the Sangu gas field was shut down around three years back. Sangu, the first offshore gas field in the country, run by Australian oil and gas exploration company Santos, was shut down permanently on October 1, 2013 with its reserves running out fast. An official of Petrobangla, seeking anonymity, said: “Though the Sangu gas field has not been used since its shut down, Tk1 crore is being spent for its maintenance every year. “In other countries, they decommission a platform after a gas field is shut down, but we do not have such a system.”

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 11, 2017 20:26 UTC