Payra thermal power plant inaugurated today

[Indos]

BTW - Bangladesh is moving away from running older coal generation powerplants, some plants will be scrapped and LNG/Petroleum plants will take their place.

PM Hasina approves scrapping of 10 coal-fired power plant projects

The government plans to use LNG and petroleum or other modern fuels to generate power

archive.dhakatribune.com

Petroleum power plants have good amount of pollution as well and not cheap as we see oil price Today. Indonesia has stop building petroleum power plan for more than 20 years.

LNG power plant will be much expensive, better gas power plant where the gas transported using pipe line, but yes look like it will not be easy, both friendly large gas exporters nearby like Indonesia and Malaysia prefer using their gas production for domestic needs. We only sell gas to foreign countries using pipeline is to rich Singapore with fluctuated long term gas deal, while the rest for export market ( around 65 % is consumed domestically) will be LNG sold to rich Japanese under long term contract and others sold in spot market ( Tangguh project/ British Petroleum).

Myanmar has huge gas reserve and it can be easily transported to BD but I think it is not politically preferred.

 

[bluesky]

Bhai BNP will say "All is $hit."

AL will say "All is Gold".

The truth is somewhere in between.

But you have to see, corruption or not, things have been done.

Bridges, Powerplants and Export Zones are standing there, fact is fact.

The problem with BNP folks is - they could not any share of the bribe percentage LOOTed. That is all the moaning is about.

In BNP times, none of these development happened.

You are right that very little things were done during BNP time. (But, Saifur Rahman was more for accumulating money/ capital.) But, it is also true not even any tiny things were done during the time of Sk. Mujib.

Zia time was better than him. He introduced something like "Food for Work" programs supported by American PL-480. Ershad time was again better. He built many rural roads.

The thing is the country is building up capacities and accumulating expertise to organize the building of heavy projects gradually. Foreign creditors do not suddenly extend huge loans to a poor country. A country has to prove its capability first, after which they keep on increasing the amount of loans.

Exactly, this is happening in Bangladesh. However, I remember one dialogue of Begum Zia. He was shouting in a meeting something like this, "Now, the installed capacity of electricity in Bangladesh is 3,500 MW, and the country needs only another 500 MW to make it totally self-sufficient in the power sector.

I cannot blame her, she is not supposed to know the requirement of power. But, Mujib did not even say a single sentence on this matter. So, things are gradually improving. The next generation politicians/ bureaucrats would become more knowledgeable I think.

Power sector must be an election issue. If one party happens to include it in the manifesto, other parties would do the same.

Where does this plant source its coal from? Hopefully it's a locked in long-term contract so prices don't get out of hand.

Coal will be sourced from Indonesia.

 

[Bilal9]

Petroleum power plants have good amount of pollution as well and not cheap as we see oil price Today. Indonesia has stop building petroleum power plan for more than 20 years.

LNG power plant will be much expensive, better gas power plant where the gas transported using pipe line, but yes look like it will not be easy, both friendly large gas exporters nearby like Indonesia and Malaysia prefer using their gas production for domestic needs. We only sell gas to foreign countries using pipeline is to rich Singapore with fluctuated long term gas deal, while the rest for export market ( around 65 % is consumed domestically) will be LNG sold to rich Japanese under long term contract and others sold in spot market ( Tangguh project/ British Petroleum).

Myanmar has huge gas reserve and it can be easily transported to BD but I think it is not politically preferred.

LNG for Bangladesh is coming from Gulf countries I believe, maybe from Kuwait. Not sure though.

 

[bluesky]

LNG for Bangladesh is coming from Gulf countries I believe, maybe from Kuwait. Not sure though.

No, BD imports LNG from Qatar.

Bangladesh keen to import 1 million metric tonnes more LNG from Qatar

Bangladesh wants to import an additional 1 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) liquefied natural gas from Qatar. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid gave the proposal to his counterpart Qatar's State Minister for Energy Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, in Doha on...

www.tbsnews.net

 

[Bilal9]

No, BD imports LNG from Qatar.

Bangladesh keen to import 1 million metric tonnes more LNG from Qatar

Bangladesh wants to import an additional 1 million metric tonnes per annum (MTPA) liquefied natural gas from Qatar. State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid gave the proposal to his counterpart Qatar's State Minister for Energy Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, in Doha on...

www.tbsnews.net

Sorry bhai - I confused the two gulf countries.....

 

[Indos]

LNG for Bangladesh is coming from Gulf countries I believe, maybe from Kuwait. Not sure though.

Could be from Indonesia, middle of this year there will be big gas project go to operation based on recent news,

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November 12, 2021

"In addition, we highlight the success of PT INKA in procuring 400 train cars to Bangladesh, as well as the follow-up to the exploration of LNG supply from Pertamina to PetroBangla," he said.

https://www.menpan.go.id/site/berita-terkini/berita-daerah/rcid-ke-2-indonesia-perkuat-kerja-sama-industri-dengan-bangladesh-dan-sri-lanka

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Pertamina Optimistic of Jambaran Tiung Biru Operations in 2022 ​

The JTB project is expected to become one of the largest gas producers in Indonesia with a gas production capacity of 192 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD). Faustina Prima Martha

- Bisnis.com February 24, 2022 | 15:30 WIB


Bisnis.com , JAKARTA - PT Pertamina Hulu Energi (PHE), a subholding of PT Pertamina (Persero) is optimistic that the Jambaran Tiung Biru (JTB) gas project will operate in mid-2022.

The project is believed to be able to support the natural gas lifting target of 12 BSCFD by 2030. "For 2022 several important projects will be on stream, one of which is the Jambaran Tiung Biru gas project, whose gas we are targeting to be on stream in mid-2022," said PHE CEO Budiman Parhusip in the Energy Outlook event broadcast by CNBC Indonesia, Thursday (24/02). /2022).

As is known, the JTB project, which is expected to become one of the largest gas producers in Indonesia, has a gas production capacity of 192 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD). A total of 100 MMSCFD have been prepared to meet the gas needs of PLN's power plants. This gas project with an investment value of US$ 1.5 billion in the future will supply a large enough supply of gas in Java.

Pertamina Optimis Jambaran Tiung Biru Beroperasi pada 2022

Proyek JTB diharapkan menjadi salah satu penghasil gas terbesar di Indonesia memiliki kapasitas produksi gas yang mencapai 192 juta standar kaki kubik per hari (MMSCFD).

ekonomi.bisnis.com

 

[Bilal9]

Could be from Indonesia, middle of this year there will be big gas project go to operation based on recent news,

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November 12, 2021

"In addition, we highlight the success of PT INKA in procuring 400 train cars to Bangladesh, as well as the follow-up to the exploration of LNG supply from Pertamina to PetroBangla," he said.

https://www.menpan.go.id/site/berita-terkini/berita-daerah/rcid-ke-2-indonesia-perkuat-kerja-sama-industri-dengan-bangladesh-dan-sri-lanka

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Pertamina Optimistic of Jambaran Tiung Biru Operations in 2022 ​

The JTB project is expected to become one of the largest gas producers in Indonesia with a gas production capacity of 192 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD). Faustina Prima Martha

- Bisnis.com February 24, 2022 | 15:30 WIB


Bisnis.com , JAKARTA - PT Pertamina Hulu Energi (PHE), a subholding of PT Pertamina (Persero) is optimistic that the Jambaran Tiung Biru (JTB) gas project will operate in mid-2022.

The project is believed to be able to support the natural gas lifting target of 12 BSCFD by 2030. "For 2022 several important projects will be on stream, one of which is the Jambaran Tiung Biru gas project, whose gas we are targeting to be on stream in mid-2022," said PHE CEO Budiman Parhusip in the Energy Outlook event broadcast by CNBC Indonesia, Thursday (24/02). /2022).

As is known, the JTB project, which is expected to become one of the largest gas producers in Indonesia, has a gas production capacity of 192 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD). A total of 100 MMSCFD have been prepared to meet the gas needs of PLN's power plants. This gas project with an investment value of US$ 1.5 billion in the future will supply a large enough supply of gas in Java.

Pertamina Optimis Jambaran Tiung Biru Beroperasi pada 2022

Proyek JTB diharapkan menjadi salah satu penghasil gas terbesar di Indonesia memiliki kapasitas produksi gas yang mencapai 192 juta standar kaki kubik per hari (MMSCFD).

ekonomi.bisnis.com

If Pertamina can supply LNG, that is great news. Bangladesh gas needs have exploded with all the economic activity.

Several re-gasification plants are already set up - some are in the pipeline.

 

[Luosifen]

There were reports of coal export restrictions from Indonesia, this has been lifted? Or were the long-term contracts unaffected by this?

 

[Bilal9]

There were reports of coal export restrictions from Indonesia, this has been lifted? Or were the long-term contracts unaffected by this?

That is something brother @Indos can tell us. I don't know the latest. Thanks in advance to him for confirming, if possible.

 

[Indos]

There were reports of coal export restrictions from Indonesia, this has been lifted? Or were the long-term contracts unaffected by this?

Only restricted in January 2022, until the miner fulfil their domestic market obligation about 25 % of their total production for state owned electricity company, PLN, which is capped to 70 USD per ton and to state owned fertilizer companies and cement industry ( both state owned and private owned) with capped price at 90 USD per ton.

Long term contract of course get effected, all miners issue force majeur during January