Bangladesh gas outage exposes textile sector's limited resilience

LNG terminal fault adds to energy woes, leads to production cuts of up to 40%

An outage at Excelerate Energy's Moheshkhali Floating LNG terminal has deprived Bangladesh's national grid of about 17 million cubic meters of gas a day. Petrobangla says the outage was caused by a spark in a control panel at the terminal. © AP

DHAKA -- The shutdown of one of Bangladesh's two floating liquefied natural gas import terminals has disrupted factory operations across the country, reducing gas supplies and forcing manufacturers to cut production.