Excelerate’s expert team arrives to fix LNG terminal problem

A team of experts from Singapore-based Excelerate Energy arrived yesterday to examine and fix an underwater valve of the country’s first LNG terminal that malfunctioned at Maheshkhali, sources at the Petrobangla said. The experts have already completed a primary examination of the valve located some 5.5 kilometers away from the shore. The valve’s position is 40 meters under water.

If weather permits, the expert team will start repairing the valve from today (Saturday), said the source. Meanwhile, as the gas crisis in the capital has taken a turn for the worse, a gas-based power plant of North-West Power Generation Company Ltd has been shut down to channel out the gas supply towards Dhaka’s residential household and CNG stations.

If the gas crisis can’t be toned down with this channeling, officials of Petrobangla told The Independent, gas supply to Ghorashal Fertilizer Company will also be channeled out for residential consumption in the capital.

Weeks before the election, this sudden and unexpected gas crisis has already put the government in a flimsy position, said a Petrobangla official preferring anonymity, adding that they are trying their best to mitigate the crisis.

 

Excelerates expert team arrives to fix LNG terminal problem

A team of experts from Singapore-based Excelerate Energy arrived yesterday to examine and fix an underwater valve of the countrys first LNG terminal that malfunctioned at Maheshkhali, sources at the Petrobangla said. The experts have already completed a primary examination of the valve located some 5.5 kilometers away from the shore. The valves position is 40 meters under water. If weather permits, the expert team will start repairing the valve from today (Saturday), said the source. Meanwhile, as the gas crisis in the capital has taken a turn for the worse, a gas-based power plant of North-West Power Generation Company Ltd has been shut down to channel out the gas supply towards Dhakas residential household and CNG stations. If the gas crisis cant be toned down with this channeling, officials of Petrobangla told The Independent, gas supply to Ghorashal Fertilizer Company will also be channeled out for residential consumption in the capital. Weeks before the election, this sudden and unexpected gas crisis has already put the government in a flimsy position, said a Petrobangla official preferring anonymity, adding that they are trying their best to mitigate the crisis.