Bangladesh will seek around US$4.68 billion in assistance from the Chinese government to implement 28 projects in telecommunication, infrastructure, energy, and health sectors at the Bangladesh-China Joint Economic Commission (JEC) meeting scheduled to begin in Beijing tomorrow.
Petrobangla yesterday approved a move allowing US oil company Chevron install a gas compressor station at Muchai in the gas pipeline owned by the national Gas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL).
Today's 11:00 PM will be 12:00 AM automatically by advancing an hour as part of the government initiated day light saving time for energy saving.
Rights body serves notice on Secretary for rule violation
State-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corp. (BPC) will buy a combined total of 180,000 tons of diesel and kerosene from a state-run Philippine company, a senior official said yesterday.
The government is likely to augment time by an hour either from June 16 or April 1 next year as a part of electricity saving measure.
State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Advocate Shamsul Huq Tuku said yesterday that legal action should be taken against those men who plundered public money to the tune of thousands of crores of Taka in the name of power generation but failed to add electricity to the national grid during the previous BNP-led alliance government.
Visiting Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard yesterday said climate change is not a "distant future" and Bangladesh should speak up clearly and loudly to get a truly global deal in Copenhagen in December this year to face the challenge together.
The energy division on Monday approved in principle a Petrobangla proposal to create a ‘gas development fund’ to be dedicated to gas exploration and production.
Speakers at a roundtable in the city yesterday emphasised the need for formulating a new energy policy and increase gas exploration by strengthening the BAPEX (Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration & Production Commpany Limited).
