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Gas supply to the capital and adjacent districts became normal on Monday evening as authorities resumed supply through the Bakhrabad-Demra transmission line after completion of the repair work in the early morning.

Officials and employees of the Gas Transmission Company Ltd completed replacement of a damaged portion of the pipeline at Shahidnagar in Daudkandi in the early hours of Monday and resumed gas supply through the line.

‘We resumed gas supply through the pipeline at around 3:00am on Monday morning,’ managing director of GTCL, Monjur Morshed Talukdar, said.

Gas transmission through the 20-inch pipeline was suspended on Saturday midnight to replace the 385-metre stretch of the pipeline which was damaged by floods in the last few years. The GTCL, however, brought the pipeline into operation well in advance of its schedule of completing the repair work on Monday midnight as announced earlier.

Although some areas in the south and south-western parts of the capital and Narayanganj faced low pressure of gas on Sunday, gas supply started to become normal on Monday morning and by evening almost all the areas got normal supply. Some CNG refilling stations faced low pressure in the morning.

The Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company had announced a 48-hour supply stoppage from Saturday midnight, creating worry among the people and boosting sales of kerosene stoves at much higher prices. Despite the supply cut through the Bakhrabad-Demra line, no major disruption in gas supply took place and consumers in the southern parts of the city were supplied the gas that was stored in the transmission and distribution lines in the city.

Additional gas was also piped to the capital through three other transmission lines that feed the eastern and northern parts of the city. Three power plants — the 110 MW Haripur and the 450 MW Meghnaghat independent power plants, and the 60 MW Haripur plant — which were shut down on Sunday because of suspension of gas supply, resumed power generation on Monday.

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