Govt to fund extra Tk 1,000 crore for gas exploration

Energy adviser Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury on Sunday said government had decided to provide Tk 1,000 crore, in addition to the budgetary allocation, for gas exploration.
Measures have been taken for exploring additional 200-300mmcft gas by the next two years, the adviser said while inaugurating the Onshore Gas Compression Project at Sangu Gas [...]

Private oil refining policy by Sept | BPC monopoly to remain intact

A Z M Anas
The government has started drafting a policy to allow private investors to refine oil and then sell in the domestic market on a limited scale, rolling back an earlier restrictive regulation, energy officials said Friday.If approved, the first Private Oil Refinery Establishment Policy-2009 will empower private refiners to export petroleum products, but [...]

Committee formed to look for fuels for mega power plan

by energybangla.com
The power and energy ministry has assigned a committee to recommend ways and means to arrange fuels for generating 7000MW electricity by 2014. The decision came at a meeting Tuesday as uncertainty over availability of fuels like gas and furnace oil for future generation plants ran deep after Petrobangla expressed [...]

WB approves $130m credit to Bangladesh for solar power

The World Bank on Friday approved a $130 million credit for Bangladesh to finance a project which was designed to support installation of affordable solar home systems in rural areas to increase the people’s access to electricity.
The amount of credit is additional financing for the Rural Electrification and Renewable [...]

PM seeks German help in energy sector

ET Report
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday last sought German assistances for tapping all sources of renewable energy in the country and facing the challenges of global climate change.
She wished for the cooperation when German Ambassador Frank Meyke made a farewell call on her at the Prime Minister’s Office in the morning.
“Germany as a big [...]

Bangladesh becomes gas chamber by Indian coal

by Torun Khan
Solving air pollution is a big challenge for Bangladesh. Environmentalists and NGOs have been active on climate change issue. Unfortunately they aren’t focusing on Indian low quality coals that are used in hugely in our brick fields.
Bangladesh’s brick fields use Indian low grade coal. Around 4000 brick fields are producing bricks consistently by [...]

JS panel chief for finalisation of coal policy

ET Report

The country needs to finalise the national coal policy to facilitate extraction of coals from the five coalmines it has with a proven reserve of around 2.55 billion tonnes for easing the worsening power crisis.
Subid Ali Bhuiyan, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, made this observation while talking [...]

Iran keen to develop Bangladesh energy sector

ET Report

Iran has shown deep interest to develop the energy sector, particularly in restructuring Easter Refinery and producing hydropower sector to improve power generation in the country.
Iranian Ambassador in Dhaka Hassan Farazandeh said this while briefing some newsmen at his residence recently.
He said Iran has vast experience in developing oil refinery fields with low cost [...]

Mega plan to generate more 5,000mw power

by R. Akter

The Ministry of Power and Energy has been mobilising taka 40,000 crore (400 billion) to generate 5,000mw of electricity to reduce load-shedding to a tolerable level in next four and a half years.
The ministry has placed its mega plan of power generation to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office Wednesday. Under the [...]