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Bangladesh
Last Updated: September 2015
Overview
Map of Bangladesh
![Map of Bangladesh Map of Bangladesh](images/country_maps/BGD.jpg)
- Natural gas and solid biomass and waste account for the majority of Bangladesh’s total primary energy consumption with the remainder being oil, coal, and hydro. In 2012, Bangladesh’s primary energy consumption was an estimated 55% natural gas, 27% traditional biomass and waste, 15% oil, 3% coal, and less than 1% hydropower and solar, according to the International Energy Agency.
Petroleum and other liquids
- Bangladesh is a net importer of crude oil and other liquids. In 2014, the country produced 4,800 barrels per day (bbl/d) of petroleum and other liquids and consumed more than 124,000 bbl/d. Because oil consumption has been increasing after 2010 to make up for the shortage of natural gas especially in the power sector, Bangladesh continues to increase its crude oil and oil product imports. Bangladesh processes crude oil at its 28,000-bbl/d-refinery owned by Eastern Refinery Limited (ERL), a subsidiary of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation. Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation initially planned to triple the refinery’s capacity by 2016, although little progress has been made thus far.
Natural gas
- Bangladesh, the eighth largest natural gas producer in the Asia Pacific region in 2014, produced 833 billion cubic feet (Bcf/y), all of which was domestically consumed. Natural gas production in Bangladesh has steadily increased by an annual average of 6% from 2004 to 2014. However, Bangladesh still faces acute natural gas supply shortages especially in the electricity sector. These shortages, in turn, have led to rolling blackouts of electricity.
- Onshore fields currently supply all of the country’s natural gas supply, although production of these mature fields is expected to plateau in the next few years. Bangladesh is seeking greater investment in its offshore area. The country plans to launch its next licensing round for several shallow water and deepwater fields in 2016, about four years after its last tender.
- Bangladesh also hopes to increase natural gas supply through LNG imports to limit strains on its power grid and reduce blackouts. In 2014, state-owned Petrobangla signed a preliminary agreement with a U.S. consortium, consisting of Astra Oil and Excelerate Energy, to build the country’s first offshore floating LNG import terminal with a regasification capacity of 240 billion cubic feet per year (Bcf/y). Bangladesh is prioritizing natural gas imports to relieve some of the gas shortage issues in the short term and intends to expedite the development of its first LNG terminal. Bangladesh is seeking to extend a memorandum of understanding signed with Qatar to supply natural gas to the terminal with the expectation that the terminal will come online by 2017. Also, state-owned Power Cell is evaluating plans to build an onshore LNG import terminal at Moheshkhali Island in the Bay of Bengal.
Oil and natural gas sector organization
- The Bangladesh, Oil, Gas, and Mineral Corporation (Petrobangla) is the key oil and natural gas company in Bangladesh. International Oil Companies (IOCs) must sell natural gas to Petrobangla at a government-determined price and are restricted in their ability to sell natural gas to customers directly.
- Chevron is the leading IOC in Bangladesh’s natural gas sector. Other IOCs, ConocoPhillips and ONGC Videsh Limited, are expected to begin exploring for hydrocarbon resources in three shallow-water blocks in the Bay of Bengal. ConocoPhillips and Norway’s Statoil hold exploration contracts for three deepwater blocks. Bangladesh is attempting to attract investment by IOCs through favorable financial incentives, particularly by enhancing fiscal terms of contracts and enacting energy price reforms.
Electricity
- Gross electricity generation has increased by an annual average of 9% from 2004 to 2014, reaching almost 58 terawatthours, which has strained Bangladesh’s electricity grid. According to Facts Global Energy, Bangladesh’s share of gas-fired capacity accounted for 70% of total installed electricity capacity which reached 10.6 gigawatts (GW) by 2014. More than 2 GW of oil-fired capacity was installed in the last few years as quick rental units that run on diesel or fuel oil. Bangladesh plans to more than double power generation capacity to 24 GW by 2021, primarily through the use of coal and natural gas.
- According to the government of Bangladesh, about 62% of the population has access to electricity. As a result, 38% of the population mainly relies on traditional biomass and waste for cooking and heating. The government seeks to replace older, inefficient units and increase electricity generation capacity to match the electrification rates of other developing countries.
Project Feedback
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12/01/2016 - Italy
First of all, congrats for this huge and helpful dataset!Secondly, how can I recover the data for Biodiesel production and see them in the chart/table? The Source button seem not to do any changes.. Thanks a lot again
11/28/2016 - Colombia
It would be easier, if when using metric units, instead of writing "billion kWh" you would specify whether this is 10^9 (as in english speaking countries) or 10^12 (everywhere else). Am I correct to assume 1 billion kW equal 1 GW?
11/19/2016 - Missouri, United States
International energy - consumption per capita years 2010 and 2011 seem wildly out of line with the previous years. US goes for 308 to 69,595 in 2010? Seems incorrect
11/11/2016 - Indiana, United States
I very much liked the previous version where excel downloaded data was much easier to work with. With this new version and the way it generates excel files when we download data, it takes me a huge amount of time to effectively use a downloaded file.
11/11/2016 - Virginia, United States
Per capita consumption data for 2011 by continent is coming up strangely. For global consumption of 529 Quad BTUs, it's showing per capita 9.5 trillion BTUs (which would assume a world pop. ~56,000).
11/02/2016 - India
Hi, great work with the interface. However, there are parts of the database that we could access in the previous version, that we are unable to access here (Imports and exports of petroleum crude and products, consumption of renewable energy in QTBTU among others). It would be great if these issues were cleared up asap so as to improve usability and access to data. Thank you!
10/24/2016 - India
Hi, We are unable to download crude oil and refined petroleum products imports by country. Kindly help.
10/13/2016 - Iran
Can you please create new links for your new things? I just saved a link for total renewable electricity net consumption, every time I just use this link address, but this time because of your update, it was not found. It makes me confused, I need this data in excel format, I search all of your website, I did not find this variable data/
10/11/2016 - New York, United States
The old system to download data was much easier - why fix something that worked well. I saw a comment that person can download all countries - I can not find that. Can you please direct me to it - thanks
10/01/2016 - Texas, United States
I'm just curious why the data period ends at 2013 - it's now Oct 2016 - seems like there should be data at least thru 2015. Has the beta site been replaced? Am I just in the wrong place?
09/28/2016 - Japan
I'm using the data for elec. generation (e.g. PV or wind) for my own research. Before this version, the data were down to 3 to 4 decimal places. However, only 1 decimal seems to be shown in Beta. It would be more useful and helpful for research if some options for more decimal place were added or units could be modified (e.g. other than billion kWh for generation). Thanks.
09/13/2016 - Norway
Hi, this gives me a very interesting picture of the global energy sector. Thank you.
08/29/2016 - Texas, United States
The organization of downloaded CSV data makes the data almost unusable. All headers for each country are shown as having equal value to the country itself so the data cannot be sorted without losing the country identification. I downloaded All Countries>Crude Oil and Lease Condensate Production. Column B makes every heading equal i.e., the country and various information headings. It is unfortunate that a download cannot be directly used but it is frustrating that as an expert Excel user I cannot easily determine a way to organize the data in a way that makes it usable. Thanks, Art Berman
08/16/2016 - Texas, United States
Really helpful and easy to use.
08/12/2016 - United Kingdom
Excellent. This is much easier to navigate and use.
07/27/2016 - Brazil
Excelent job! What does the "other liquids" in Total Petroleum and Other Liquids Production 2015 include?
07/18/2016 - India
Very useful data. However, it would be great if you could mention how much of India's energy (especially oil and gas) imports come by sea, in order to get a clearer picture of India's energy imports.
06/23/2016 - United Kingdom
I was using your import figures for china i.e. the pie chart for percentage world wide imports 2014 and when added up it is 99% rather than 100.
06/22/2016 - Japan
More new information will be helpful to understand global enegy situation.
06/15/2016 - Ecuador
Srs, I am probably one of the thousands readers that are eager to learn of the new information produced by EIA. Excellent, by the way. OPEC report on revenue is very informative. Our governments always keep us in the dark. Why???. Thank you
06/07/2016 - United Kingdom
Amazing data, thank you very much!
05/25/2016 - China
Very helpful information!! Well researched, clear figures and graphs.
05/18/2016 - California, United States
There is no data available for the petroleum or natural gas reserves in the U.S.A.
05/01/2016 - Australia
It is incredibly frustrating trying to view the data you want. Today I simply want to view the imports of crude oil in bbld in South Africa. BTU is a completely unhelpful metric.
04/22/2016 - California, United States
2014?? Where are the production numbers of 2015 and up 4/22/16?
04/03/2016 - United Kingdom
Fantastic resource. Very well researched, clear and easy figures and graphs. Well organised too. Incredible useful!
03/08/2016 - District of Columbia, United States
What a handy tool, thanks!
03/06/2016 - New Jersey, United States
Well organized information with easy access.
02/15/2016 - West Virginia, United States
Very helpful information!
02/14/2016 - China
I like the old version which had a country brief.
02/09/2016 - Saudi Arabia
Excellent work for the country analysis. However, i'm struggling to cite the South African country analysis report....would appreciate if you could sent it
01/30/2016 - Spain
Your website is very useful for me as a teacher, particularly the world thematic maps. My students like it as well. Thanks a lot!
01/22/2016 - Vietnam
Useful data for my work. Thanks sincerely.
01/04/2016 - Canada
Best government website ever
01/02/2016 - Turkey
Goood
12/29/2015 - Michigan, United States
We use your 'Total Electricity Net Consumption' data for comparing countries for a market potential index we create each year. Data in the previous years was available up to 5 decimal places. However, data is available with only 1 decimal place this year (through the beta interface) and comparing countries became a challenge because there are too many countries with the same values now. Is there a way to download the full data-set with all the decimal points available?
12/22/2015 - United Kingdom
Brilliant bit of website, made my life a thousand times easier!
12/06/2015 - Argentina
Excellent!!
11/29/2015 - Malaysia
May I know if there is a latest write up on Malaysia year 2015. The one I have obtained is 2014.
11/21/2015 - Virginia, United States
Terrific article on Brazil...thank you.
11/20/2015 - Egypt
I note that the analysis of energy in Israel in this site is not covered in details as other countries?
11/17/2015 - Michigan, United States
Great PDF file on Canada's energy and trade success! Exactly what I needed to bring me up to speed for my research on Michigan and on the Midwest - thanks! (Mike at McGuire Research)
11/15/2015 - California, United States
Why are your maps so hard to copy and past? It should be easy to get a nice graph of yours.
11/12/2015 - Alabama, United States
I work with Excel spreadsheets. I looked at your Excel download function and examined your Excel spreadsheet. It appears that if I am going to load the data into my spreadsheets, I will have to do one line at a time, each country individualy.
10/06/2015 - United Kingdom
The analysis on South Korea was a very interesting and worthwhile read. Great to see such an informed analysis presented with tables to illustrate it
09/30/2015 - France
Excellent interface, very very efficient. Having global data is definitely a plus. Too bad data goes up to 2012 and does not include 2013 and 2014. Comments coming from an IT manager used to major systems with large databases.
09/12/2015 - India
I always rely on data published by EIA to make various comparisons and analysis reports. This tool makes my job much easier.
09/11/2015 - Russia
Amazing tool, thank you for such a useful application for data export .
08/16/2015 - Colorado, United States
So... Pretty! Really appreciate you guys going the extra mile with your data tools, this makes my research so much more effective. You guys have been an utter joy to work with (not a typical experience for government bureaucracy), and this new beta is the icing on the cake. Thanks for the hard work you have put in to make this information clear and understandable! Looking forward to seeing what you guys cook up in the future.
06/09/2015 - District of Columbia, United States
Why can't I download any of this to spreadsheets? Why can't I download multiple years?
06/01/2015 - Nigeria
Dear Sirs, I have been using your data for almost 20 yrs, in particular the international Petroleum data. I like the granularity provided, by country by month. Unfortunately it seems from the beta site, that I can only access the annual data and only download as a CSV file. Is that correct? regards Casper
05/31/2015 - Virginia, United States
Where are the country pages!!!? I am writing a book chapter and referenced your site, where I found terrific info on India and Japan several months ago. Unfortunately, it appears you deleted those pages. Why?
05/27/2015 - Antarctica
I really love this beautiful webpage! It is very wonderful:) I love learning about this stuff!
05/25/2015 -
I need to access country profiles in .pdf form.
05/20/2015 - New York, United States
Thank you for all the info and help over the past few years. Before the layout, I was able to find annual #s of net exports of petro for each country, and now I have no idea where it is.
05/20/2015 - New York, United States
I am looking for bbl and bcf , not Btu , can you tell me where to look for country's oil bbl and gas in bcf? Thanks
05/20/2015 - Canada
Where can I find the original spreadsheets with the country data for Crude + Condensate and the one for all liquids. The new look is too complicated for me. The spreadsheet is more easily used for good analysis.
05/19/2015 - Texas, United States
Would like a link to the pdf of the entire country analysis brief.