UNB, Dhaka :
The state-owned oil distribution company Meghna Petroleum Limited (MPL) has initiated a move build the country’s first ever “oil museum” in the port city of Chittagong.
According to official sources, the museum will aim for world-class standard and exhibit different aspects of petroleum production and distribution from the inception of the country as well as a combination of text, diagrams and models to describe the origin, occurrence, prospects, extraction, processing and uses of crude oil.
In addition, the history of crude oil extraction and use, particularly in the region and around the world, will be portrayed.
The proposed museum will be housed in a 20-storey building at 72, Agrabad Commercial Area in Chittagong. MPL, a subsidiary of the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, has undertaken to construct the 20-storey building on 11 kathas of land at a cost of Tk 40 crore.
MPL officials informed that the 4200-square feet museum will be located on the first floor of the building while the other floors will used for other commercial purposes. Some of the floors will be rented to different commercial organisations including banks, insurance companies and restaurants.
The state-owned petroleum distribution company will construct the building at its own cost.
MPL’s managing director Dr Sharif Ashrafuzzaman informed that they have already submitted the relevant design and layout plan to Chittagong Development Authority (CDA).
“Once the plan is approved by CDA, the civil construction work of the project will immediately start,” he told UNB.
The main theme of the museum project was to make the people familiar with different kinds of oil and petroleum products and their long history.
“The museum will be very useful to provide information about different kinds of oil, their history, condition of oil in different countries, history of the discovery of furnace oil in the sub-continent, advent of different oil companies in the country and their activities, oil exploration activities in Bangladesh, oil fields in Bangladesh, reserve of oil in the country, and achievements and possibilities of oil resources in Bangladesh,” said the MPL MD.
He also said that the museum could be used as very good source of reference for the university students studying at different universities on petroleum and petrochemicals.
The state-owned oil distribution company Meghna Petroleum Limited (MPL) has initiated a move build the country’s first ever “oil museum” in the port city of Chittagong.
According to official sources, the museum will aim for world-class standard and exhibit different aspects of petroleum production and distribution from the inception of the country as well as a combination of text, diagrams and models to describe the origin, occurrence, prospects, extraction, processing and uses of crude oil.
In addition, the history of crude oil extraction and use, particularly in the region and around the world, will be portrayed.
The proposed museum will be housed in a 20-storey building at 72, Agrabad Commercial Area in Chittagong. MPL, a subsidiary of the state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, has undertaken to construct the 20-storey building on 11 kathas of land at a cost of Tk 40 crore.
MPL officials informed that the 4200-square feet museum will be located on the first floor of the building while the other floors will used for other commercial purposes. Some of the floors will be rented to different commercial organisations including banks, insurance companies and restaurants.
The state-owned petroleum distribution company will construct the building at its own cost.
MPL’s managing director Dr Sharif Ashrafuzzaman informed that they have already submitted the relevant design and layout plan to Chittagong Development Authority (CDA).
“Once the plan is approved by CDA, the civil construction work of the project will immediately start,” he told UNB.
The main theme of the museum project was to make the people familiar with different kinds of oil and petroleum products and their long history.
“The museum will be very useful to provide information about different kinds of oil, their history, condition of oil in different countries, history of the discovery of furnace oil in the sub-continent, advent of different oil companies in the country and their activities, oil exploration activities in Bangladesh, oil fields in Bangladesh, reserve of oil in the country, and achievements and possibilities of oil resources in Bangladesh,” said the MPL MD.
He also said that the museum could be used as very good source of reference for the university students studying at different universities on petroleum and petrochemicals.
