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Non-renewable Energy Policy
3.0. NON-RENEWABLE ENERGY POLICY 3.1 Assessment of Indigenous Resources a. A comprehensive assessment of non-renewable energy resource base is essential. respective of the actual prospects of their exploitation under prevailing techno-economic situation. b. A comprehensive data base, containing all information and data required for exploration, is required to be developed by continuously updating geological, geophysical and geochemical information. c. Extensive exploration need to be continued to upgrade structural leads to established structures. d. Steps are to be taken to drill the established structures/plays to ascertain their status. e. Intensive exploration needs to be continued to delineate new structures in the hitherto unexplored frontier and virgin areas. f. Special incentive packages similar to those offered for oil and gas exploration in off- shore areas are to be given for exploration of oil and gas resources in the west zone. g. Foreign and local entrepreneurs are to be encouraged to invest in exploration for petroleum and solid fuels in the country. h. The public sector utilities are to intensify exploration. For this, the present policy of the Government to allow one exploration drilling per year with internal resources is inadequate. Number of exploration drilling with internal resources is to be increased to at least four per year.
3.2 Supply and Augmentation of Indigenous Resources 3.2.1. Oil and Gas a. Comprehensive reservoir study of the developed gas fields need to be undertaken to determine their actual field potential. b. Systematic appraisal of the discovered, partially developed and undeveloped gas/oil fields is to be undertaken to determine actual recoverable reserve. In this context, the possible reserves of presently exploited gas fields and the discovered oil fields at Haripur, Kailashtila and Fenchuganj are to be given priority. c. Efforts are to be made to reduce the abandonment pressure to optimum level wherever possible, to augment the recoverable reserve of natural gas. d. The number of production wells are to be increased by the year 2000 to 77, including 15 stand-by wells for ensuring reliability and an average supply of 1000 MMCFD gas.
e. Producible wells, which may now be idle for different reasons, are to be brought under production on a priority basis. If needed, internal resources are to be allocated for attaining this target.
f. Gas fields having higher NGL content are to be given priority for development in order to increase NGL supply. In this context, the Beanibazar gas field is to be brought into production at the earliest. g. GL plants at Ashugonj and Kailashtila are to be commissioned at the earliest. h. Development of the national gas grid, inter-connecting all the producing fields with the transmission network as well as connecting the demand centres with it should be completed as soon as possible. i. Since reserve of Kutubdia Gas Field has been considered in the energy balance, due consideration is to be given to its development and availability for use.
3.2.2 Coal a. The target of producing one million tonne of coal from Barapukuria by the turn of the century is to be achieved. b. Techno-economic feasibility of Khalaspir coal deposit in Rangpur is. to be taken up at the earliest. c. Appraisal of coal basins in Rangpur-Dinajpur belt is to be completed and depending on the findings, techno-economic feasibility of their exploitation are to be taken up. d. Exploration for coal in the north-western part of the country including the identified potential coal basins is to be undertaken on a priority basis. e. The feasibility study on extraction of Coal Bed Methane (CBM) from Jamalgonj and Khalaspir is to be undertaken on a priority basis, if needed internal resources are to be allocated for this. Depending on the findings of the Feasibility study, commercial exploitation of CBM is to be considered for these and other prospective areas of coal deposit. Private entrepreneurs may be encouraged to extract CBM. 3.2.3 Peata. A number of semi-commercial to commercial scale projects on peat extraction and briquetting plants may be set up at different peat deposit areas on the basis of findings of the under-implementation project on peat. b. Problems like reclamation of land after extraction of peat, drying, briquetting of peat as well as the logistics of transportation and distribution are to be solved before this fuel is considered for use on a large scale. 3.2.2 Nuclear MineralsAreas having prospects of uranium and thorium deposits are to be appraised and, studies may be conducted on the techno-economic viability of production at prospective sites. ----------------- Source: National Energy Policy 1995
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