Haripur Gas Field

Type: Natural Resource
Contributed By: Nayeem
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Brief

Haripur Gas Field is known as Sylhet Gas Fields limited. It is a sister concern of PETRO Bangla under the Ministry of Power, Energy and Natural Resource. It primarily started production of natural gas and mineral gas in the country.

In quest of natural gas, the then Pakistan Petroleum Limited (PPL) in 1955 commenced drilling activities at Haripur, a small village of Jaintapur police station in Sylhet district of the former East Pakistan. As drilling of a well in the structure was progressing, the first discovery of gas in the country took place in the same year. Unfortunately their effort did not succeed as blow out occurred in the very first well of the country because of abnormal high pressure. Before the independence of Bangladesh, 6 wells were drilled in Haripur. Of the six wells, only two wells, well no. 3 and well no. 6 became operative and the rest were abandoned for various technical reasons. Haripur structure consists of four layers. These are Tipam, upper Boka Beel, second Boka Beel and lower Boka Beel.

After the liberation war, Sylhet-7 well, the much discussed well in the history of Bangladesh as this was the single oil producing well of the country, was drilled at Haripur in 1986. However, with time a gradual production declining trend had become apparent. After 07 years of more or less uninterrupted production of total 560869 barrels of crude oil, the well ceased its production on 14th July, 1994. The well head pressure was zero at that time.

In March 2005 the work over was done on the well and was completed as a gas producer with an initial production capacity of 15 MMCFD.

The last well, which was drilled in Haripur gas field by Scimitar Exploration Ltd. in 1989, is Surma 1A well. This well was an appraisal well for oil discovery but oil was not found. Now this well is producing gas. Recently 3D Seismic Survey has been completed in the field of Sylhet-7 well.

1X30 MMscfd Silicagel type solid desiccant dehydration plant and 68 bbl/day capacity condensate fractionation plants have been set up in the field to process the gas and condensate produced from the wells.


How to go

It is 22 km away from main Sylhet city. At first someone has to get to Sylhet from his location. He may use bus, train or even reach by air. It can be seen while travelling through the Sylhet-Tamabeel Highway road.

How To Reach: Sylhet District

Three type of transportation mode is available towards Sylhet from Dhaka. You can get in there by bus, train or air.

1. Greenline Paribahan
9/2, Outer Circular Road, Rajarbag, Dhaka-1217. (BDT 850 Volvo, BDT 1100 Scania)

2. Shyamoli Paribahan

Arambagh Counter, Dhaka. Phone-7102291, 0193626023
Sayedabad Counter, Dhaka. Phone-0171-8075541, 7511019, 7550071

3. Hanif Paribahan, Dhaka offices

Panthapath: 0173-402670
Arambagh: 01713-402671
Sayedabad: 01713-402673

4. S Al Saudia

Address: Humayun Rashid Chattar, Sylhet
Mobile: 01712920909

5. Shohah Paribahan

Address: Shobhani Ghat, Sylhet
Phone: 0821-722299
Fare: Taka 1100

You will find the above bus operators from Malibag Rail-gate, Razarbag or Sayedabad bus stand. These services are available from 6:30 am to 11:30 pm.

Bangladesh Biman, NovoAir, United Airways and Regent Airways are the four operators who fly from Dhaka to sylhet. The ticket price starts from 3000 taka & it goes up to 8000 taka per pax. There are more than 10 flights every day from morning to evening.

The planes leaving Dhaka for Sylhet are

1. United Airlines
Departure from Dhaka-5:35PM on Friday: 2:20PM
Departure from Sylhet-6:45PM on Friday-3:30PM
(Schedule varies time to time)
Fair-One way BDT 3825- 6325

2. Regent Airways.
Departure from Dhaka-4:40PM
Departure from Sylhet-5:45PM
(Schedule varies time to time)
Fair-One fair ranges from BDT 4800-5700

3. Bangladesh Biman. Price of tickets ranges from BDT 3500-9940 (Single flight per day)

There are four train services from Dhaka to sylhet. They are Joyontika, Parabat and Upoban depart at morning, noon and evening. There is a new train named Kalini depart at afternoon from Dhaka. It takes 7-8 hours to reach sylhet.The ticket price is around 295 for shovon-chair & it gets 679 taka for 1st class AC.

Train Schedules:

1. Kalini Express– departure time from Dhaka-4:00PM, arrival time at Sylhet-10:30PM.Off day: Friday

2. Parabat Express– departure time from Dhaka-6:40AM, arrival time at Sylhet-1:35PM
Departure time from Sylhet-3:00PM, arrival time at Dhaka-10:30PM. Off day: Tuesday

3. Upaban Express– departure time from Dhaka-9:50PM, arrival time at Sylhet-5:30AM
Departure time from Sylhet-10:00PM, arrival time at Dhaka-5:30AM.
Off day: Wednesday in Dhaka, no off days in Sylhet

4. Joyntika Express– departure time from Dhaka-12:00PM, arrival time at Sylhet-7:50PM
Departure time from Sylhet-08:20AM, arrival time at Dhaka-4:00PM.
Off day: None
Fair of all these ranges according to compartments usually BDT 75-1018.

Where to Stay

There are a number of good quality hotels in Sylhet town. Most of those are at the Mazar road, Amberkhana, or in Zindabazar. A brief list of hotels is given below:
1. Hotel Eastern Gate & Panahar Restaurant.
2. Hotel Gulshan.
3. Hotel Dargah View.
4. Greenland Hotel & Restaurant.
5. Hotel City Link International.
6. Surma Valley Rest House.
7. Hotel Baharain Residential
8. Hotel Qureishi Residence.
9. Hotel Ajmeer.
10. Hotel Payra.
11. Hotel Supreme,
12. Hotel Palash,
13. Hotel Western,
14. Hotel Anurag,
15. Hotel Al-Amin,
16. Hotel Garden’s Inn,
17. Hotel Ferdous,
18. Hotel Panama,
19. Hotel Green,
20. Hotel Hilltown,
21. Hotel Rose View,
22. Hotel Star Pacific,
23. Hotel Tajmohal.

Things to do

Observe the production process in the gas field.

Eating Facilities

There is no restaurants around. You have to satisfy your hunger from Sylhet main town’s restaurants.

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