[1] This gas field was discovered in 1996 in the Bay of Bengal 50 km away from the land near Silimpur, Chittagong.
[2] Santos, an Australian multinational company was in charge of operation of the gas field.
To store the imported LNG, the government of Bangladesh is planning to convert the offshore gas field into an underground storage, where 487.91 billion cubic feet of gas can be stored.
[5] It initially produces about 50 million cubic feet of gas daily.
It was declared abandoned when gas production dropped from two to three million cubic feet daily at the end of the 2013.