[1][2][3] It carries out research on the gas and petroleum reserves of Bangladesh.
[4] The Bangladesh Hydrocarbon Unit traces its origin to a project called Strengthening of the Hydrocarbon Unit in the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources in July 1999.
From April 2006 the government of Bangladesh started the second phrase of the project.
The second phrase was financed by a Norwegian Government grant and it was administered by the Asian Development Bank.
The government made the project a permanent bureau of the ministry on 28 May 2008.