Barapukuria Coal Mining Company

Barapukuria Coal Mining Company is a wholly owned coal-mining subsidiary of Petrobangla, which is otherwise known as the Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation. Petrobangla is a state-owned company which is involved in oil and gas exploration, production, and distribution as well as coal, granite and limestone mining.

Barapukuria Coal Mining Company operates an underground coal mine at Barapuluria in the Dinajpur District. "The coal mine had a production capacity of 1 Mt/yr of coal. Coal extraction was by long-wall mining. The coal was delivered to a thermal powerplant. Development work of the next long-wall coal face was underway, and production was expected to begin in 2007," the USGS reports.

Contact details
Petrocentre, 3 Kawranbazar, Dhanka - 1215, Bangladesh FAX - 880 2 9120224 Website: http://www.petrobangla.org.bd/

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