Dhaka, Jan. 28 -- Bangladesh's maiden offshore hydrocarbon platform worth around US$300 million lies long idle since the dereliction of Sangu gas field over a decade ago despite its potential for using as a facility to re-gasify liquefied gases.

Sources say the facility with subsea pipeline and an onshore processing unit has been laid to waste for government negligence, while private companies making the most out of domestic gas shortages and import of liquid gases.

"Neither did the government take any initiative to utilise the infrastructure itself nor lease it out to any interested sponsor to operate it," says one insider about the missed opportunity for a decade or so.

Keeping the infrastructure unused for a longer time is posing th...