Summit LNG terminal shutdown cuts grid gas supply to 2,079 million cubic feet

Gas supply to the national grid has fallen because the Summit LNG terminal at Maheshkhali is shut for maintenance work. By 10am on Wednesday (4 November), supply had dropped to 2,079 million cubic feet, which is 491 million cubic feet less than in normal times.

Petrobangla said maintenance work at the terminal began at 8am on Wednesday. The work will continue until 4pm on 7 November.

According to Petrobangla, daily gas demand in the country is about 3,800 million cubic feet. Against that, production from domestic gas fields and imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) together were supplying about 2,570 million cubic feet a day to the national grid.

Petrobangla had forecast in advance that with the Summit terminal shut, daily supply could fall to 2,250 million cubic feet. Within that, supply from imported LNG was expected to fall from 920 million cubic feet to 600 million cubic feet.

But at 10am on Wednesday, gas supply to the national grid stood at 2,079 million cubic feet. Of that, 1,565 million cubic feet came from domestic gas fields and 514 million cubic feet from imported LNG. In other words, supply at that time was 171 million cubic feet below even Petrobangla's forecast.

Meanwhile, Petrobangla has called information spreading on social media that gas supply would be shut across the country for four days because of the maintenance work a rumour.

There are two floating terminals at Maheshkhali to supply imported LNG to the national grid. One is operated by Summit Group and the other by the US company Excelerate Energy. The Summit terminal's daily gas supply capacity is 500 million cubic feet and Excelerate Energy's is 600 million cubic feet. The two terminals' combined capacity is 1,100 million cubic feet a day.

Petrobangla said gas supply to the national grid has been disrupted before because of terminal problems. In December 2025 as well, similar maintenance work was carried out at the Summit terminal.