Joint team of Bangladesh and India visits Ashuganj River Port and the Meghna river; New gas layer detected at a well in Kailashtila gas field in Sylhet; UAE imposes restrictions on renewal and issuance of work visas to the Bangladeshis
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    • According to reports, a joint team of Bangladesh and India visited Ashuganj River Port and the Meghna river on August 23, 2012 to study what infrastructure it would require to transit goods from Paschimbanga to "seven sisters" of India through the port. 1
    In another development, reports noted that the state-run oil and gas exploration company has detected a new gas layer at a well in Kailashtila gas field in Sylhet. According to Mortuza Ahmad Faruque, Managing Director of Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Ltd (Bapex), there were three gas zones in the well no. 4 of the gas field. A new layer has been identified between upper and middle layers of the well at a depth of 2,722 metre. The new zone of the well would add about 20 million cubic feet of gas per day (20 mmcfd), which would take 10 to 12 days to go for commercial production, and thus inclusion to the national grid. It would be worth noting that about 90 mmcfd gas is being produced at the six wells in Kailashtila at present. 2
    In other developments, according to reports, the United Arab Emirates has imposed restrictions on renewal and issuance of work visas to the Bangladeshis. Bangladesh's Consul General Abu Zafar in Dubai said they had been receiving such reports for two weeks but the UAE authorities were yet to officially inform them about it. 3

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