Dhaka, July 2 -- Chevron Bangladesh, a part of the global energy company Chevron, has expressed its keenness to invest in further exploration of two onshore gas blocks - block-11 and block-12 - in the country's gas-rich north-eastern region along with a compression station project.

"Officials of the US company have spelled out their plan to explore these two onshore blocks and install a compression station near Jalalabad gas field to boost domestic natural gas output," Adviser of the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Dr Muhammad Fouzul Kabir Khan told The Financial Express Tuesday.

The American company reiterated its investment plan when Chevron's new President of Base Assets and Emerging Countries Javier La Rosa, along wi...