Condensate colourless or light yellow liquid hydrocarbons which come out as associated liquids with natural gas during its production. Most condensates are composed of saturated hydrocarbons in the light gasoline range (butane, pentane and hexane). Condensates generally have API gravity higher than 55. Gas produced from a field containing significant quantities of condensate is characterised as wet gas.

There are 7 (seven) gas-condensate fields discovered in Bangladesh. About 1,325 bbl of condensate is being produced everyday and the total recoverable reserve is 64.69 million bbl. Beanibazar (1.82 million bbl), Kailashtila (26.9 million bbl), Jalalabad (15.75 million bbl), Rashidpur (4.0 million bbl), Feni (8.23 million bbl), Bakhrabad (2.08 million bbl), Titas (1.65 million bbl), Sylhet (0.38 million bbl), Fenchuganj (0.52 million bbl), Belabo (0.31 million bbl), Meghna (0.21 million bbl) and Habiganj (0.08 million bbl) are significant fields. Major condensate producing fields are Kailashtila, Rashidpur, Jalalabad, Habiganj and Beanibazar. The recently discovered Bibiyana and Maulvi Bazar gas fields are considered to be two major gas-condensate fields and these have a considerable recoverable condensate reserve. But the condensate reserve of these two fields is now at the stage of appraisal, and therefore, is not included in the total reserve figure.

The condensate produced from the gas fields is transported through pipelines to the processing plants and refined. Approximately 38,000 ton of condensate is supplied annually from different gas fields of the country to the eastern refinery limited for producing refined petroleum products. The condensate produced from the gas fields are piped by a six-inch diameter and 175 km long pipeline from Kailashtila to Ashuganj and then transported to Eastern Refinery at Chittagong by barges. To facilitate smooth handling of condensate, storage tanks of different sizes are built near condensate producing fields and at Ashuganj. [Mushfiqur Rahman]