Md. Mahbubur RahmanDeputy DirectorBangladesh Bureau of Statistics

Background Location of coal mine Salient features Discovered coal deposit in Bangladesh Collection of coal statistics Production and sales of coal Some Pictures

The Barapukuria coal deposit was discovered in 1985 when the geological Survey of Bangladesh drilled a wild-cat borehole to investigate a negative gravity anomaly in the area.

Since that time, a total of 35 deep boreholes have been drilled, delimiting the area of coal resources and determining the structure and the coal seam characteristics in terms of thickness and quality.

Location of Barapukuria Coal Mine:

Village-Chowhati, Police Station- Parbatiur, District-Dinajpur.

Extent of Coal Deposit:

6.68 Square kilometres.

Depth of Coal Deposit :

118 m-509m.

Total Estimated Deposit of Coal:

390 Million Metric Tons.

Number of  Coal Seams:

7.

Production Seam: 6th Seam.

Thickness of 6th Seam:

36 Metre.

Estimated Deposit in 6th Seam:

285 Million Metric Tonne.

Project based on: 30 Million Metric Tonne.

• Composition of coal:

Moisture-10%, Ash-12.4%, Volatile Matter-29.2%, Fixed Carbon-48.4%Sulphur-0.53%.

Calorific value:25.68 MJ/kg or 11040 Btu/lb.

Rank of coal: High volatile bituminous.

Uses of coal:100% of the production will be used in a 375 MW coal fired power station.

Manpower 2674.

Coal extraction method:

Multi-slice Longwall.

Location/ Area/

District

Number of

Drilled Borehol

es

Depth of Coal

Seams (metre)

Number of Coal Seams

Cumulative

Thickness of Coal

Seams (metre

)

Area of Coal Field

(square kilomet

re)

Deposit (million metric tonne)

Year of Discover

y

Barapukuria

Dinajpur

31 118-509 7 51 6.68 300 1985-87

Khalashpir Rangpur

4 257-483 8 50 12.56 685 1989-90

Jamalganj Joypurhat

10 640-1158 7 64 11.66 1053 1962

Phulbari Dinajpur

1 - - - - - 1997

Dighipara Dinajpur

3 328-407 7 61 - - 1994-95

Bangladesh oil, gas and mineral corporation (PETROBANGLA) operates the coal mining activity in Bangladesh through “Barapukuria Coal Mining Project”.

The coal mine project is located at the district of Dinajpur, the North-West Part of Bangladesh.

Commercial basis production of coal has been started from September, 2005.

The coal mining project office sends monthly production data of coal to head office, PETROBANGLA, both in quantity and value.

The project office also provides information on expenditure of its coal mining activity.

PETROBANGLA, with its other production statistics, also publishes coal mining statistics in its monthly MIS report.

BBS uses the coal mining statistics published in the MIS reports of PETROBANGLA.

BBS also uses the expenditure data of coal production directly from the project office of coal mining for GDP compilation purpose.

Year Production (000 MT)

Quantity sold

('000 MT)

Value (Mill. Tk)

Value (Mill. US$)

Ave. price/MT (Taka)

Ave. price/MT (US$)

2008-09 857.6 790.6

4,586.3 56.62 5801.3 71.6

2009-10 730.9 820.4

4,820.7 59.51 5875.7 72.5

2010-11 666.6 572.5

3,876.8 47.86 6771.3 83.6

2011-12 657.5 832.6

7,217.1 89.10 8667.7 107.0

Expenditure Heads Actual Expenses (In Taka)

Actual Expenses (In US$)

Wages & Salary, Royalty, Allowance

2245468221 27721830

Recreation 224656 2774Training, education 5512268 68053Entertainment 227973 2814Repair & maintenance 1061353 13103Construction and developments 35927788 443553LC Charge & Commission 10148455 125290Office Equipment 198000 2444Leave fare assistance - officer 70000 864Plumping material 10087 125Office stationery and printing 47372 585Telephone 57544 710Postage 973 12Internet service 5827 72Electricity bill - business 45078419 556524Electricity bill -Domestic 57239 707Office rent 190614 2353Other building rent 12000 148Internal Coal Use 2115197 26114

Expenditure Heads Actual Expenses (In Taka)

Actual Expenses (In US$)

Legal expenses 20000 247Consultancy fee (LC+FC) 79561441 982240

Vehicle insurance 246078 3038Other board meeting exp. 93248 1151External audit fee 80000 988

Bank charges & commission 50278 621News papers, books & etc. 19980 247Vehicle tax and license 1943 24

POL for transport 893446 11030Bus hire for staff 94500 1167Other transport hire 7200 89

Consumable for Production 66185362 817103

Expenditure Heads Actual Expenses (In Taka)

Actual Expenses (In US$)

Advertisement - Press 15000 185Advertisement - tender 83544 1031Fuel for production 8812769 108800Security expenses 1728284 21337Other office consumable 39128 483Non-Capitalized equipment 8892 110Donation/Subscription 1422400 17560Miscellaneous 335386 4141Light Vehicle 7800000 96296Telecom & Computer equipment 178300 2201Production cost for coal productivity

2064024550 25481785

Total 4578115715 56519947

Year 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12

Total energy (E, G, C)

70834 75609 81173 92948

Coal 2438 2078 1895 1869

Share of coal 3.44 2.75 2.33 2.01

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