The Santos allow withdrawal without knowing the gas can be found
Australian oil-gas exploration company Santos has given a chance to loot Tk 230 million, the government's energy department has given a chance. Santos has taken 1.29 crore taka. The rest of the company is pressing for Tk 101 million, the company said.
In the light of the first light, it is learned that the gas block of the 16 sea blocks of the country, Magnma-2, could not be found, but jointly with Santos allowed the BAPEX to lift the gas, the energy department of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources. But only 13 days after drilling the well, Santos said, there is no gas. But before that they took '12 million taka' taka.
After the expiry of the 16-point production partner agreement (PSC) with Santos, the deadline for expiry of the deadline for expiry of the deadline in December 2014 will be increased again. Then in 2016, Santos Magnima-2 jointly with Bapex proposed to explore and lift gas. The concerned people say that there is no scope to correct the PSC once PSC is completed with a foreign company. But it was not accepted in Santos.
Because of the irregularities in the energy sector, Bapex is now sinking for debt. Because BAPEX has taken a 12-year loan for 2% interest to Santos. The amount of debt now is actually 262 crore taka. Najimuddin Chowdhury, the then Secretary of the Department of Energy, Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources, was associated with these illegal activities. He was then the chairman of Bapex. He is now living a leisurely life.
Again, irregularities were also made in the case of borrowing. The authorities have also been involved in this irregularity with the payment of loans to Petrobangla, Titas Gas, Karnafuli Gas, Bakhrabad Gas and Bapex from its own fund, giving BAPEX loans for extraction of lawless extraction.
The managing director (MD) of Bapex and the MD of Gas Transmission Company Limited said. Atikuzzaman said in the first light, "We took the resolution of Santos very negative, so that the proposal was not passed. We were sure there was no gas in Magnum. The board chairman is the energy secretary, there is nothing else to do. '
The then energy secretary Nazimuddin Chowdhury said in the first light, "This is a long time ago. I do not remember anything about this now.
The concerned people say the Canadian company, Nico Tarantatila, leased a new gas field, leaving it leased. Then there came out the information that there was corruption behind the approval of NIKO after the blast occurred. Without knowing any gas in Magnma-2, the fuel department has scamed Nike's scandal with the approval of digging well there.
In the draft report of a commission formed by the Consumer Rights Organization Bangladesh Consumer Association of Bangladesh (CAB) 'Electricity Factories Department, the irregularity of the power sector' also contains this information. The six-member commission writer and researcher Syed Abul Maksud, member professor M Shamsul Alam, physicist professor Sushanta Kumar Das, economist MM Akash, architect Mobasher Hossain and geologist Professor Badrul Imam.
The Commission's draft report says that the Santos agreement, like the NICO contract, has been corrupted. In the NICO agreement, former State Minister for Energy, BNP leader AKM Mosharraf Hossain played a key role. Former energy secretary Nazimuddin Chowdhury played a leading role in Santos agreement.