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Download PDF Bangladesh Gas Field Company Ltd (BGFCL) is going to permanently abandon its Brahmanbaria Titas Gas Field’s faulty well no. 3 and has already started the procedure.
The experts concerned are trying to kill the well permanently. The entire process would cost at least $7.87 million and Tk 70.56 lakh in two phases, sources said.
The BGFCL authorities yesterday hoisted a red flag and announced special notice asking everyone around not to be frightened as the process may create at least 20-to-25-foot high flames with roaring and deafening sounds.
Sources in the BGFCL said the well was adding 30 million cubic feet gas to the national grid regularly. But the authorities started the termination process due to its faulty and abnormal functioning.
At least 20-25 days is required to complete the work, they added.
M/s Boots & Coots International, a US-based gas control company, has been tasked with the killing and abandonment work. Despite their efforts, the well remained unchanged until yesterday.
They shut down the well for 12 hours on Sunday on an experimental basis, but had to restart it urgently after one and a half hours. They claimed the experiment was done the next day.
A BGFCL officer said the experiment was done as a diagnostic step to work out what process should be adopted. He said the well is under their full control and all the primary tasks have been completed.
Natural gas was emitting through countless big and small holes in Shampur, Anandapur and Loiska Beel near the well for the last three years. Informed by villagers, BGFCL authorities launched an investigation and found that gas was emitting due to lack of proper cementation in the well.
All tube-wells of Shampur and Anandapur villages are out of order since the emitting started.
Speaking anonymously, a BGFCL high official said the faulty well was very harmful for Titas Gs Field. That is why they started the killing process.
Contacted, Md Abdul Hye, deputy commissioner (DC) of Brahmanbaria, said he has visited the spot and has reports from he BGFCL that gas emitting will stop when the ongoing work is done.
The DC has ordered the upazila nirbahi officer (Sadar) to make a survey on the villagers of nearby villages as a precautionary measure in case of emergency.
January 10th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Wish BGFCL all the luck.Titas is our largest gas field. Any major crisis here now will cause unsurmountable catastrophe for the energy sector.The killing of the well should be closely monitored by BGFCL top management.