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LNG Power Plants in Bangladesh


The Government of Bangladesh (GOB) planned to install 18 LNG based power plants with a capacity of 10,530 MW by 2030 in which 2,685 MW are at under construction stage now, 2,760 MW is approved and currently at pre-construction stage, 1475 MW is at pre-approval or proposed stage and 2410 MW is at the planning stage while 1200 MW has been shelved by the sponsor. 

Under Construction

  1. Meghnaghat 583 MW (Summit) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 589.75 MW. Sponsored by Summit Meghnaghat II Power Limited (SMIIPL), a JVC of Summit Group (53.9%), General Electric: (30%) and JERA (16.1%). Situated at Meghnaghat Island in Narayanganj District. EPC Contractor: General Electric (GE). Expected COD: March 2023
  2. Meghnaghat 584 MW (Unique) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 600 MW. Sponsored by Unique Meghnaghat Power Limited (UMPL), a JVC of Unique Group (50.1%), General Electric: (20%), Nebras Power (24%) and Strategic Finance & Investments Limited (5.9%). Situated at Dudhghata under Sonargaon Upazila in Narayanganj District. EPC Contractor: General Electric (GE). Expected COD: July 2023
  3. Meghnaghat 718 MW (Reliance) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 750 MW. Sponsored by Reliance Bangladesh LNG & Power Limited (RBLP), a JVC of Reliance Power Limited (51%) and JERA (49%). Situated at Meghnaghat Island in Narayanganj District: EPC Contractor: Samsung C&T. Expected COD: March 2023
  4. Rupsha 800 MW (NWPGCL) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 880 MW. Sponsored by North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL), an SOE under BPDB. EPC Contractor: Shanghai Electric (China) & Ansaldo Energia (Italy). Expected COD: October 2023 (1st Unit) and April 2024 (2nd Unit) 

Pre-construction Stage

  1. Anwara 590 MW (United) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 600 MW. Sponsored by United Chattogram Power Limited, a JVC of United Group (60%), Kyushu Electric Power Company (20%) and Sojitz Corporation (20%). Expected COD: January 2026
  2. Gazaria 660 MW (EPH-WPL) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 660 MW. Sponsored by: EPH-WPL Consortium Limited, a JVC of Edra Power Holdings Sendirian Berhad (80%) and Winnievision Power Limited (20%). Expected COD: January 2026
  3. Meghnaghat 450 MW (Anlima) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 500 MW. Sponsored by Anlima Meghnaghat Power Limited, a JVC of Anlima Group (75%) and General Electric (25%). Expected COD: January 2026
  4. Mirsarai 660 MW (Confidence) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 660 MW. Sponsored by Confidence Chittagong Power Limited, a JVC of Consortium of Confidence Power Holdings Limited (62%), General Electric (20%), Confidence Power Limited (9%) and Electrapack Industries Limited (9%). Expected COD: June 2027
  5. Raozan 400 MW (BPDB) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 410 MW. Sponsored by Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB). EPC Conractor: SEPCOIII Electric Power Construction Company Limited. Expected COD: December 2025

Pre-approval Stage

  1. Haripur 250 MW (BPDB) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 250 MW. Proposed by Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB). Expected COD: June 2026
  2. Ghorashal 225 MW (BPDB) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 250 MW. Proposed by Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB). Expected COD: June 2027
  3. Mymensingh 400 MW (BRPL) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 420 MW. Proposed by B-R PowerGen Limited, a JVC of BPDB (50%) and Rural Power Company Limited (50%). Expected COD: June 2027
  4. Matarbari 600 MW (CPGCBL-Mitsui) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 660 MW. Jointly proposed by Coal Power Generation Company Bangladesh Limited (CPGCBL), an SOE under BPDB, and Mitsui & Company, Japan. Expected COD: June 2028

Planning Stage

  1. Gazaria 600 MW (RPCL) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 660 MW. Proposed by Rural Power Company Limited, an SOE under Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB). Expected COD: June 2028
  2. Siddhirganj 600 MW (BPDB) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 660 MW. Proposed by Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB). Expected COD: June 2029
  3. Sonagazi 600 MW (EGCBL) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 660 MW. Proposed by Electricity Generation Company of Bangladesh Limited (EGCBL), an SOE under BPDB. Expected COD: December 2029
  4. Bheramara 610 MW LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 660 MW. Proposed by Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB). Expected COD: December 2030

Shelved

  1. Payra 1200 MW (NWPGCL) LNG Power Plant. Gross Capacity: 1200 MW. Proposed by North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL), a SOE under BPDB, and Siemens AG, Germany. Expected COD: June 2026

Bangladesh signs deal with Siemens for 3,600MW power plant

16 February 2019 | Bdnews24.com 
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Bangladesh’s North-West Power Generation Company has signed an initial deal with Siemens AG of Germany to build an LNG-based power plant in Patuakhali’s Payra. 
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who was in Germany to attend the Munich Security Conference, witnessed the signing at the Sheraton hotel in the city on Friday, Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque told the media. 
Joe Kaeser, the global president and CEO of Siemens AG, was also present. 
In 2017, the two firms signed a memorandum of understanding for the 3,600 megawatt plant, which will be the largest in the country. 
The estimated cost of the project is $2.8 billion, 80 percent of which is expected to come from loans and rest will remain as equity. 
After the signing, Power Secretary Ahmad Kaikaus told bdnews24.com that the deal was about appointment of contractor and import of liquefied natural gas, or LNG. 
The power plant will have three 1,200MW units. The signing ceremony was told that a survey was under way to check how the imported LNG will be brought to the plant. 
The Bangladesh government has a series of large infrastructure projects in Payra, including a port and economic zone for the development of the country's southern region. 

Deal signed for 3600 MW LNG power plant

16 February 2019 | Daily Prothom Alo 
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Bangladesh Power Division and German company Siemens on Friday initialed a joint development agreement for construction of a 3600 MW LNG power plant in Payra, Patuakhali, reports BSS. 
The document was signed following a meeting of Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser with prime minister Sheikh Hasina at meeting room of Hotel Sheraton in Munich, Germany where the prime minister is staying during her ongoing visit to Germany. 
CEO of North West Power Generation Company of Bangladesh Khorshed Alam and chief executive officer and global president of Siemens Joe Kaeser signed the document on behalf of their respective sides. 
Briefing newsmen after the meeting, foreign sectary Shahidul Haque said the power plant is the beginning of Siemens ’ plan to come in Bangladesh in a big way to invest in the health, education mobility and other sectors. 
Later, CEO of German company Veridos Hans Wolfgang Kunz also called on prime minister Sheikh Hasina at the hotel. 
Wolfgang informed the prime minister about the progress of manufacturing technologically advanced e-passport for Bangladesh saying the company would be able to handover first batch of e-passport to Bangladesh authority by June 2019. 
Such technologically very advanced e-passports are used only in two countries in the world -- Germany and Bangladesh. The passport is almost impossible to forge, the Veridos CEO said. 
Wolfgang Kunz expressed interest in data processing and other sectors also, the foreign secretary said adding the company has a plan to invest in a big way in Bangladesh. 
The prime minister welcomed the Veridos decision to invest in Bangladesh and technology transfer for setting up of a plant for production of e-passport in Bangladesh. 
The prime minister hoped that Bangladeshis would be able to operate the e-passport production plant by taking necessary training and produce e-passport for other countries. 

Deal signed to build 3600 MW LNG based power plant at Payra

08 September 2018 | Energybangla.com 
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North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) and German based Siemens AG today signed a joint development agreement (JDA) for building 3600 MW LNG-based power plant at Payra in Patuakhali district. 

Secretary of NWPGCL Dipak Kumar Dhali and President, Gas and Power, Siemens Richard Clayton Reising signed the agreement on behalf of the respective institutions at hotel Westin in the city. 

“The project will add 1200 megawatt electricity to the national grid by 2021 and rest of 2400 megawatt electricity will be added in the next year,” NWPGCL Chief Executive Officer AM Khurshedul Alam told the signing ceremony. 

Power Division Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus, Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) Chairman Engineer Khaled Mahmood and German Deputy Head of Mission Michael Schultheiss attended the function. 

The project is the largest in the country in terms of capacity and first ever LNG-To-Power Project in Bangladesh. 

Document signed with Seimens to construct LNG power plant at Payra



16 February 2019 | Daily Independent 
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The Power Division of Bangladesh and Seimens of Germany on Friday initialed a joint development agreement for the construction of a 3600MW LNG power plant at Payra in Bangladesh. 

The document was signed following a meeting of the Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Hotel Sheraton where Hasina is staying. 

CEO of North West Power Generation Company of Bangladesh Khorshed Alam and Chief Executive Officer and Global President of Siemens Joe Kaeser signed the document. 

Briefing reporters after the meeting, Foreign Sectary Md Shahidul Haque said the power plant is the initial part of the Seimens plan to come to Bangladesh in a big way to invest in health, education mobility and other sectors. 

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen, Principal Secretary Md Nazibur Rahman, Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque, PM's press secretary Ihsanul Karim, Power Division Secretary Dr Ahmad Kaikaus and Bangladesh Ambassador to Germany Imtiaz Ahmed were present. 

Veridos to hand over first batch of e-passport in June, its CEO tells PM 

Later, CEO of German company Veridos Hans Wolfgang Kunz met Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the hotel. 

Wolfgang informed the Prime Minister about the progress of manufacturing technologically-advanced e-passport for Bangladesh saying the company would be able to hand over the first batch of e-passport to Bangladesh authorities by June next. 

The Veridos CEO said such e-passport is very much advanced in technological point of view and will be used only in two countries of the world -- Germany and Bangladesh. The passport is almost impossible to be forged. 

Wolfgang Kunz expressed interest in data processing and other sectors, the Foreign Secretary said adding that the company has a plan to invest in a greater way in Bangladesh. 

The Prime Minister welcomed the Veridos decision to invest in Bangladesh and technology transfer for setting up of a plant for the production of e-passport in Bangladesh. 

She hoped that Bangladeshis will be able to operate the e-passport production plant by taking necessary training and produce e-passport for other countries. 

3,600-MW LNG based power plant to be built at Payra

4 November 2017 | Daily Dhaka Tribune 
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The government has undertaken another milestone project to set up a 3,600 megawatt (MW) power plant based on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) at Payra in Patuakhali. 

North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) and Germany based Siemens AG are scheduled to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Sunday in Dhaka in this regard. 

Prime Minister's Energy Adviser Towfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid, Chief Coordinator (SDG) of the Prime Minister's Office Md Abul Kalam Azad and Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Thomas Prinz will attend the MoU signing ceremony at Bidyut Bhaban in the capital. 

"The NWPGCL and the Siemens AG will jointly finance the project," Director for Public Relation Department of Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) Chowdhury Saiful Hasan told BSS. 

According to the project details, the two companies will build the 3,600-MW power plant having three units with electricity generation capacity of 1,200-MW each. 

The companies will also construct the LNG terminal there for ensuring availability of necessary natural gas to generate electricity. 

Bangladesh to build 3600MW LNG-run power plant at Payra

4 November 2017 | Rashedul Hasan | bdnews24.com 
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Bangladesh is going to build a 3,600-megawatt power plant at Payra in Patuakhali, the largest in the country and first to be run by imported liquefied natural gas or LNG. 

Sate-owned North-West Power Generation Company Limited and Germany-based Siemens will sign a deal to set up the plant on Sunday, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid told bdnews24.com on Saturday. 

"We hope the project will be implemented very fast," he said and added the work was expected to start by June 2018. 

The estimated cost of the project is $2.5 billion, 80 percent of which is expected to come as the loan, he also said. 

He said Siemens would also construct another 3500MW power plant at Maheshkhali in Cox's Bazar. 

The Power Development Board or PDB would sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the firm for the Maheshkhali plant soon, he said. 

At Payra, North-West Power Generation is already constructing a 1320MW coal-fired power plant with China's help, and 26 percent work of the project is complete. 

For the new LNG-run plant, the government has allotted a 100-acre piece of land next to the coal-based plant, according to the company's Managing Director AM Khorshedul Alam. 

He said the new plant would comprise six units with 600MW capacity each. 

The North-West managing director said two units would become operational by June 2020, two more in December the same year and the remaining two in the following year. 

Khorshedul said an LNG terminal would also be set up at Payra to supply the imported gas to the plant. 

The Awami League-led coalition government has initiated large infrastructure projects at Payra, including a port and economic zone for the development of the country's southern districts, with an aim to make Bangladesh a middle-income country by 2021 and developed one by 2041. 

The country's capacity to generate electricity is 15,821MW in total. The government has targeted to raise the amount to 24,000MW by 2021 and 40,000MW by 2030. 

Since 2009, a total of 87 power plants with a combined capacity to generate 9,254MW have been set up. 

Now the government is eyeing larger power plants. The work to build a nuclear power plant at Rooppur in Pabna is under way. 

Besides this, some more coal-run power plants at Maheshkhali, in Bagerhat and some other gas-run power plants are being set up. 

MoU inked for 3600 MW Payra power plant by 2021

05 Nov 2017 | energynewsbd.com  
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Germany based Siemens AG on Sunday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for setting up a 3600 megawatt (MW) combined cycle power plant based on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) by 2021 at Payra in Patuakhali district. 
The state-run North-West Power Generation Company Limited (NWPGCL) and Germany based Siemens AG signed the MoU to build the 3600-MW power plant having three units, each having electricity generation capacity of 1,200 MW, by December 2021. 
Managing Director of NWPGCL Engineer AM Khurshedul Alam and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens South Asia Sunil Mathur signed the MoU on behalf of their respective sides at Bidyut Bhaban in Dhaka. 
Prime Minister`s Energy Advisor Dr Towfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury witnessed the signing ceremony as the chief guest, while State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid and Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany Dr Thomas Prinz were present as the special guests. 
Dr Towfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury said workshops and training programmes would help engineers to make them skilled for operating modern equipment in the power sector. 
He urged authorities concerned for arranging workshops and training programmes in future. 
Nasrul Hamid said this is the single largest investment from Germany, adding, "The estimated cost is $ 2.8 billion including debt of $ 2.4 billion and equity $ 400 million." 
He said the German government came forward with the largest investment showing their trust in Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina`s government. 
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Bangladesh Dr Thomas Prinz said the German government stood beside Bangladesh on the Rohingya crisis, adding, "We are keen to be a reliable development partner of Bangladesh and Germany is the single largest buyer of RMG (readymade garment)." 
According to the project details, it will be implemented in three phases on 100 acres of land adjacent to Payra 1320-MW Thermal Power Plant site by establishing a joint venture company (JVC) as a project company. 
It is expected that the first unit of the plant with 1200-MW generation capacity will go into operation in June 2020, while the second with the same generation capacity in December 2020 and the third in December 2021. 
The project also stipulates that the efficiency of the machine will be more than 60 percent and the plant will be operated by imported LNG, while the power will be transmitted through 400 kV transmission line (Under Construction) from Payra Power Plant to Dhaka via Gopalganj. 
The companies will also construct the LNG terminal there for ensuring availability of necessary natural gas to generate electricity.

Bangladesh Announces LNG Power Plants as Part of Generation Expansion

Darrell Proctor | Powermag.com | 1 December 2017 
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Floating terminals will supply LNG. Texas-based Excelerate Energy is building a floating storage regasification unit offshore Bangladesh, one of three units currently planned to increase the amount of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imported by the country. Courtesy: Excelerate Energy
The state-owned North-West Power Generation Co. Ltd. (NWPGCL) in Bangladesh in early November announced plans to build a 3,600-MW regasification liquefied natural gas (LNG) combined cycle power plant in the Patuakhali district, on the heels of an earlier agreement to construct a similar 750-to-850-MW plant in Khulna. 

The new plants are part of a concerted effort to increase generation capacity in a country that traditionally has relied on gas-fired power. Bangladesh’s ruling party, the Bangladesh Awami League (BAL), has said upgrading the country’s energy infrastructure is critical to increasing security and lessening the need to import power from neighboring countries. Officials are working with many countries, including Russia, on energy initiatives. 

Analysts said the country had 15,821 MW of generation capacity as of November 2017, and the country’s Power Division has said capacity must be increased to 24,000 MW—a 52% jump—by 2021, according to its most recent Power Sector Master Plan. Analysts have said electricity demand in Bangladesh is likely to reach 30,000 MW by 2030. Senior government officials have said Bangladesh expects to import at least 25% of its electricity from India for the next few years. 

Other large power generation projects underway in Bangladesh include the country’s first nuclear facility, a 2,400-MW plant at Rooppur, and a 1,320-MW coal-fired facility in Rampal, being built by India’s NTPC. The nuclear plant, expected to enter commercial operation in 2023, will utilize two VVER-1200 reactors (water-water energetic reactors), each producing the equivalent of 1,200 MW. It is being built by the Russian Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corp. 

In addition to adding coal, nuclear, and natural gas-fired generation, the country’s government also has a goal to produce at least 10% of its power from renewable sources by 2020. 

Khurshedul Alam, NWPGCL’s managing director, said his group has signed a memorandum of understanding with Germany’s Siemens AG to build the Patuakhali facility. He said the site was chosen because it has a port into which the LNG can be imported. 

Alam told the Dhaka Tribune in late October that NWPGCL already had agreements in place “to import around 125 million cubic feet (MMcf) per day equivalent of regasified LNG at [the] Bangladesh-India border through an offshore LNG terminal from India’s West Bengal to the plant in Khulna.” He said Bangladesh has “opted to import LNG as the country is reeling from an acute gas crisis because the current reserves are depleting very fast.” 

The two NWPGCL projects are in addition to a 500-to-600-MW regasification LNG combined cycle power plant being built in Matarbari, in Cox’s Bazar, Chittagong, Bangladesh. That project is a joint venture of Japan’s MITSUI and the Coal Power Generation Co. Bangladesh Ltd. 

NWPGCL has three operating power plants in Bangladesh: a 360-MW dual-fuel facility in Bheramara that began operation in September 2017; a 225-MW natural gas-fired combined cycle plant in Sirajganj that began commercial operation with 150 MW of generation capacity in December 2012, and was upgraded to 225 MW in July 2014; and a natural gas-fired combined cycle plant in Khulna that began commercial operation with 150 MW of generation capacity in 2013, and was upgraded to 225 MW in June 2016. 

State-owned Petrobangla, also known as Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corp., in mid-October signed an agreement for the use of an LNG regasification terminal with a consortium of local Hong Kong Shanghai Manjala Power Ltd., Malaysia’s Global LNG, and Petronas LNG Ltd. The terminal—a floating storage and fixed jetty based regasification unit (FSRU)—will be set up by the consortium at Kutubdia Island in Cox’s Bazar. 

It is the third LNG floating terminal planned to supply Bangladesh through Petrobangla. The first, being built by Texas-based Excelerate Energy, is a 500 million cubic feet per day FSRU (Figure 1) that is expected to begin service in April 2018. A second terminal with similar capacity is being built by Summit Group, a Bangladesh company headquartered in Dhaka; it is expected to come online by year-end 2018. Each terminal will import LNG from Switzerland, Oman, and Qatar. 

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