Bangladesh’s gas output to plunge after 2020

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Dhaka—Bangladesh’s natural gas production could fall more than 50% between 2017 and 2030 unless new fields are discovered and brought onstream, according to the boss of state-owned Petrobangla. Output from the country’s existing fields will peak at 38.71 Bcm (1.37 trillion cubic feet) per year in 2017, declining to 38.49 Bcm in 2020 and to just 18.24 Bcm by 2030—a 53% drop, Petrobangla Chairman Hussain Monsur told Platts Tuesday.