BM Desk : Disruptions in the offloading of imported LNG have resulted in a shortage of gas for consumers nationwide for three days in a row.
Households are finding it difficult to cook since the scarcity began on Tuesday, factories across the nation have stopped operations, and CNG fueling stations are running low.
Md. Rafiqul Islam, the director of Petrobangla’s Operations and Mines Department, asserts that the situation started to improve on Thursday and will be “100%” normal by Friday afternoon.
However, the resumption of regular supplies at the fuel unloading will not reach other regions of the country for several hours. Consequently, Dhaka continued to experience a shortage of gas supplies.
“The Banasree neighborhood has been without gas for the previous two days, and it remains unavailable,” Alamgir Hossain, manager of the Bhojan Bilas restaurant in Banasree, told the media. The kitchen of my restaurant has a pipeline gas hookup, and we fry roti and paratha in the open space using LP gas cylinders. We have been using the LP gas stove as much as possible over the last two days.
Families are in a similar situation: without gas, cooking is impossible. Others are left in a difficult situation, while others who have other options can adapt to some extent.
Shantinagar homeowner Sadia Akhter said: “The gas supply hasn’t been a problem for a while. Even the location of my electric stove escaped my memory. I found the stove yesterday after being without gas for a day. She asked about the causes of the gas supply constraint and if it will be rectified quickly, characterizing it as an additional burden.
Sharif, who works at a small eatery in Khilgaon, commented, “I noticed a rise in customers at the restaurant yesterday morning (Thursday) compared to prior days.” Later, I learned that the gas supply problem prevented many people from cooking at home. Over the previous two days, unfavorable weather conditions have prevented the floating LNG terminal in the Bay of Bengal from connecting with cargo ships, which has disrupted the gas supply.
According to officials, the lack of LNG offloading resulted in a 1,000 million cubic foot drop in the gas supply to the national transmission system. Since the problem started, Petrobangla has ceased to provide its daily update on gas supply.
The national transmission line, however, supplied slightly more than 2,800 million cubic feet of gas per day, before falling below 2,000 million cubic feet, according to the most recent report.
Unfavorable weather conditions prevented cargo berthing at the Accelerate Energy and Summit LNG terminals. However, according to the officials, that problem was fixed by Thursday.
As of 12:00 pm, the two floating LNG terminals were supplying somewhat more than 1,000 million cubic feet of gas, Petrobangla Director Rafiqul told bdnews24.com. Under such circumstances, the national transmission is over 2,850 million cubic feet
It indicates that things have reverted to how they were. This will eventually reach the consumer level as well.
“There were no complaints of gas shortage in the CNG filling stations in the majority of the country last Wednesday,” stated Farhan Noor, secretary general of the Bangladesh CNG Filling Station and Conversion Workshop Owners Association. I have no idea how things were yesterday. I’ve heard that an issue at the LNG terminal caused this to occur.
