It will supply 25 million cubic feet of gas to the National Grid.

Bapex, a subsidiary of Bangladesh Gas Field Company Limited (BGFCL) under Petrobangla, earlier this month commissioned Titas-16 gas well in the district from where 20 million cubic feet of gas is being supplied to the National Grid since December 20. Drilling in Ttias-16 well started on August 7 this year and completed on December 17.

Bapex drills gas well with its own engineers and manpower with resources from BGFCL, official sources said. BGFCL also supplied drilling rig to Bapex.

With drilling of Titas-16, the number wells so far drilled under Titas Gas Filed is now 15, which are supplying a total of 446 million cubic feet of gas to the National Grid daily, the sources said. The total deposit in the 15 fields under Titas Gas Field is around 5.13 Trillion Cubic Feet (TCF), of which 2.46 TCF has been extracted so far, they said.