Dhaka: The gas supply which remained fully or partially suspended in the country’s northwestern districts resumed on Sunday as Gas Transmission Company Limited (GTCL) completed its pigging work (pipeline cleaning) in its transmission lines.

‘We’ve completed our pigging works in the afternoon on Sunday. Now gas supply fully resumed in the northwestern districts, particularly in the areas under Titas Gas and Pasjchimanchal Gas Company,’ Mahbub Sarwar, managing director of the GTCL, told UNB.

The GTCL started the pigging works on its major gas transmission lines connected with the northwestern region on 15 September that led to complete or partial shutdown in gas supply to those areas under the region.

The pigging work, however, has been completed two days ahead as it was scheduled to be completed on 20 September.

Titas Gas Company also confirmed about the resumption of gas supply in the areas, including Ghatail Cantonment, Gopalpur, Jamalpur, Sharishabari, Sherpur, Tarakandi, Kishoreganj, Tangail, Mirzapur, Elenga and Chandra.

The gas supply became normal in the areas in Sirajganj, Ullapara, Shahjadpur, Bera, Santhia, Pabna, Ishwardi, Bogra and Rajshahi, which are controlled by Pashchimanchal Gas Company Limited.

Earlier, the GTCL conducted similar works on its two pipelines—60km Bakhrabad-Siddhirganj line and 61km Ashuganj-Siddhirganj pipeline—from 25 August to 1 September and during the period consumers in Dhaka city, Naraynganj, and its adjoining areas experienced low pressure problem in their gas supply.