Ba n g l a d e s h ‘ s liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification has reached almost the saturation level to around 1,053 million cubic feet per day (mmcfd) with the country’s two operational floating-storage and regasification units (FSRUs) running at 95.72-per cent capacity. With the present infrastructure the country has the capacity to re-gasify around 1,100 mmcfd in maximum, provided that both the FSRUs run in full capacity, a senior Petropangla official said. Currently, the FSRU, owned by US’s Excelerate Energy, has the capacity to re-gasify around 600 mmcfd of LNG and Summit Group’s FSRU has a capacity of 500 mmcfd.
To utilize both the FSRUs in full swing, Bangladesh will need to import 115 LNG cargoes in a year, said the official.
The state-run Petrobangla is importing a total of 108 LNG cargoes this year (2025), the highest number in a single year.
It has planned to import seven additional LNG cargoes to reach the saturation level for supplying natural gas to gasstarved state-run fertilizer factories.