The gas extraction from the new gas field, Bhola North-1, began on Saturday afternoon on an experimental basis.

This is the 2nd gas field in the district and 27th in the country, reports the UNB.

The gas extraction began with lighting fire through DST-1 at Majhirhat village in Sadar upazila when top officials of Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (Bapex), including its managing director Md Nowshad Islam, were present.

Around 20-25 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) of gas will be produced from the well, the Bapex chief said, adding that the field might contain 600 BCF gas.

Earlier in August 2017, Bapex discovered another new gas field, Shahbazpur East-1, in the district where some 700 billion cubic feet of gas was expected to be reserved.