The Formation
Bangladesh
Mineral Oil & Gas
Corporation (BMOGC)
was created through
the Presidential
order #27 on March
26, 1972. The
minerals operation
of the corporation
was segregated and
vested with a new
organization,
Bangladesh Mineral
Development
Corporation (BMEDC),
on 27 September
1972, through the PO
# 120. The
reconstituted
Bangladesh Oil & Gas
Corporation (BOGC)
was short named
Petrobangla ..........
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History of
Petrobangla:
Initial scattered
exploration effort
for oil and gas was
undertaken by
private ventures.
The search of oil
and gas in the area
constituting
Bangladesh began in
the later part of
the 19th century
through some
isolated geological
mapping. The first
serious attempt to
find oil and gas was
undertaken in
Sitakund in 1908 by
the Indian Petroleum
Prospecting Company,
18 years after the
first oil discovery
in Digboi, Assam.
During 1923-31
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