Dhaka, Oct. 14 -- Curing Bangladesh's economic development-limiting fuel crunch gets under focus as exploration in the south coast and releasing locked Bhola gas caches gather speed.

Sources say the government has fielded agencies to carry out feasibility study on pipeline setting to carry the stranded Bhola gas to mainland to utilise the island's gas to meet the country's mounting fuel demand.

State-run Gas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL) is carrying out the study and expecting to complete the survey by February 2026.

Half the job has already been done under an urgency of utilising the hydrocarbon resources of the southern island district of Bangladesh, found long before but couldn't so far be transmitted into national grid for lack o...