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State-owned enterprise, national level
Name, kind, status and website
From the registry of public bodies, which cites bgdcl.gov.bd. A dissolution read from an act overrides the registry's status.
Registry structure
The registry of public bodies records the parent as Petrobangla (registry id 191). Provenance: registry structure (entities.parent_id), not a sourced row.
Own annual report: functions or principal activities
To purchase natural gas from gas producing companies of Petrobangla. and
Own annual report: functions or principal activities
To sell natural gas to different consumers of greater Noakhali, Cumilla, Chandpur and Brahmanbaria District.
Functions and services on bgdcl.gov.bd
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Each block reads its route when opened.
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Lenses
3 BDPolicyLab pages show this body.
GovTwin institution
Matched by its number in the registry of public bodies.
The figures of this view are on its own page.
Watch tracker
Matched by its registered name in the page's data.
The figures of this view are on its own page.
Watch record
Matched by its registered name in the page's data.
The figures of this view are on its own page.
Press coverage
Named in 1 article since September 2021; number 135 among bodies in the last 12 months.
0 articles from October 2025 to September 2026, against 0 in the 12 months before.
Months with an article: September 2021 (1 article of 1,085).
The total counts every outlet in the corpus. The 12-month comparison, shares and spikes use The Daily Star (business pages before 2026) and Prothom Alo English from 2018, so they measure attention within that corpus, not the whole press. Company press releases are left out throughout. A spike is a month at least three standard deviations above the body's previous 24 months. Bodies are matched by name or acronym in the headline and summary.
No dated figure about this body is recorded yet. Last changed 1 October 2026, 02:31 UTC. See over time
Forecasts: none of the 8 registered problems reads data this node appears in. The scoreboard
Facts in the body's own annual report (image read)2
Facts the body's own annual report prints, read from the page images by two blind readers: mandate = the first three items of the functions list as printed (annual_report_functions / apa_functions); legal_basis = the instrument the report cites, identified by name, number or date (annual_report_legal_instrument); dated_event = an establishment, reorganisation or renaming year as printed; actual_spending = the body's actual expenditure for a named fiscal year (annual_report_actual; budget columns never count). Each reader's text is kept (_a, _b); pages are 1-based PDF pages.
Own annual report: functions or principal activities · To purchase natural gas from gas producing companies of Petrobangla. and
Own annual report: functions or principal activities · To sell natural gas to different consumers of greater Noakhali, Cumilla, Chandpur and Brahmanbaria District.
We have not yet found the law or order that created this body.
We have not yet found who leads this body in a source we can cite.
What each source budgets for the year: a gross demand for grants, an allocation, or a state-owned enterprise's own budget (income, expenditure, net profit or deficit). The tag on each line says which. None of it is spending.
SOE budget book, budget (not actual spending): net profit or (deficit)
Tk −385.82 crore
SOE budget book, budget (not actual spending): net profit or (deficit)
Tk −252.15 crore
What was spent, by year, as the accounts or the body's own statements print it.
SOE budget book actual: net profit or (deficit)
Tk −173.64 crore
Own financial statements, sum of the printed expense lines (no total printed)
Tk 5,244.63 crore
SOE budget books, budget and revised columns2
The book's budget and revised-budget columns as two readers read them: column_header_printed_b and column_role_b are reader B's; lines ending _revised are the revised budget. entity_level: the table covers the enterprise as a whole; a head-office (প্রধান কার্যালয়) or societies (সমিতিসমূহ) table is served with its scope. Rows are not summed; two books can print the same year.
SOE budget book, budget (not actual spending): net profit or (deficit) · Tk −385.82 crore · FY2024-25 revised budget
SOE budget book, budget (not actual spending): net profit or (deficit) · Tk −252.15 crore · FY2025-26 budget
Counts, shares and methods from e-GP award notices, never contractor names. How procurement competition is measured, and the national picture
Concentration and method mix of the body's e-GP awards
31.5% of value by limited or direct methods; top-5 contractors take 80.6%; HHI 1,742
e-GP awards whose procuring office resolves to the body
161 awards, Tk 83.64 crore contract value
Procurement competition (e-GP)1
Concentration and method mix of the body's e-GP awards · 31.5% of value by limited or direct methods; top-5 contractors take 80.6%; HHI 1,742 · 2023-24 to 2025-26
e-GP awards attached to the body1
E-GP contract awards whose procuring office resolves to this registry body (twin_trace_spine.body_entity_id), except that an office in procuring_office_entity counts under the body two readers agreed (status 'two-reader office link'); own awards only, nothing rolled up from child bodies. Money is the contract value on the award notice, not spending.
We have not yet found the sites, buildings or other assets this body holds.
Headquarters place
Comilla district
Headquarters place1
Headquarters place, two readers · Comilla district
Dated event: founding
began as Bakhrabad Gas Systems Limited
Dated event: renamed
renamed
Dated events on the body's own page2
Dated events of the body (founding, began_operations, renamed, merged) as two readers read them, each quote verbatim in that reader's saved source. date_iso is served only where both readers' dates agree; otherwise the year only, with each reader's printed date and date_basis_a. note_a is reader A's note: where it names a predecessor body ('predecessor: ...', 'as ...') the event is the predecessor's, and the year is not this body's own founding.
Dated event, two readers: founding · began as Bakhrabad Gas Systems Limited · 7 Jun 1980
Dated event, two readers: renamed · renamed · 30 Jun 2011
21 different files (file hashes in How we know); 18 without a printed title are listed separately.
Sonali Bank Plc / Annual Report 2024
Document without a printed title
Document without a printed title
Document without a printed title
Document without a printed title
govtwin_min_power/bgdcl_gas_distribution_annual_report_2020.pdf
a2c173a5-8557-4b94-b39e-829179f98897
petrobangla 6d72a7183a624751a3e0558f
petrobangla 748880e8ed2e433e92fa08b6
hcu gas production distribution consumption 2024 25
Document without a printed title
hcu annual report gas production distribution
hcu gas production distribution consumption
sonali bank annual report 2023
62 passages in the twin's document library mention this body
Listed once per file (same sha256): an untitled file (2 rows); an untitled file (2 rows); an untitled file (2 rows); an untitled file (2 rows).
Annual reports3
Annual report, body named on the cover · বার্ষিক প্রতিবেদন ২০২৩ · ২০২৩
Annual report, body named on the cover · বার্ষিক প্রতিবেদন ২০২৪ · ২০২৪
The eleven things the twin looks for on every public body, and whether a sourced record answers each one here.
For researchers: the registry row as recorded, how the twin object was built, and every typed link.
Object id 949
bgdcl.gov.bd/pages/organograms/6922d91d933eb65569dfcb87
No file hash is recorded on this row.
No provenance tier is recorded. Read from the registry of public bodies (BPL).
Registry of public bodies (BPL)
35,866 source rows · 35,866 objects built · 11.6 MB
Built 2026-10-02 15:25:23 UTC.
Nothing held for this body: Parent Division by the Allocation of Business; Parent Division by its agency list or MTBF book; Parent resolved by two readers; Parent body the office's own title names; Parent body the office's own title names (body added by lane REG1); Parent body whose own saved page lists the office (body added by lane FIELDPARENT); District the office's own title names; District from the office's own home page; District by rule from the office's own portal address; District from the LGD portal's own list; Containing district from the BBS census row; By rule: a committee of Parliament sits at the House; Address printed on the body's own site; Head-office address printed on the body's own site; Head-office address printed on the body's own site; Mandate inherited from the parent body; Mandate inherited from the parent body; Mandate items; Functions list on the body's own website; Functions section of the establishing act; Terms of reference in the gazette notification; Functions as printed on the body's own page; Functions list in the body's own document; Functions the body prints itself (own page, report or audited statements); Terms of reference in the constituting notification; Facts in the company's audited statements; Facts a third reader settled; Facts in the company's audited statements (image read); Functions list on the body's own site; Facts on the body's own website (rendered page); Legal basis inherited from the parent body; Legal basis inherited from the parent body; Establishing act, functions section; Founding instrument; Instrument named on the body's own page; Establishing act on bdlaws; Gazette instrument that constitutes the body; Act or gazette notification that establishes or renames the body; Gazette notification that constitutes the council or committee; Act section that names the body; Act provision for this office class; Notification named on the body's own page; Instrument that establishes the body (act, Constitution article or Rules of Business Schedule I); By class: the statute for every body of this kind, and the register that lists this body; Constituting instrument in the body's own document; Cabinet Division notification constituting the committee; Chair or convener; Head of the body as its own page prints it; Head post and holder as the source prints them; Posts the field office's own portal lists; Posts the body's own portal lists; Posts the body's own portal lists; Posts the body's own portal lists; Head post and holder on the body's own office-head page; The body's own budget line; Budget line through the parent body; Gross demands for grants of the ministry's Divisions; UGC revised operating budget; UGC revised operating budget under the former name; Actuals printed for the budget division; Appropriation Accounts by year; MTBF actual column; UGC annual reports, operating expenditure; Total expenditure in the body's own report; Total expenditure in the body's own report, round 2; Total expenditure in the body's own statements; Expense lines in the company's audited statements; MTBF actual of the line that names the body; MTBF actual of the body's own budget unit; Total expenditure in the body's own audited statements; Actual expenditure in the body's own statements or accounts; MTBF actual of the project line that is the body; Expense lines in the audited statements (image read); MTBF actual under the body's former name; Finance Accounts, the body's unit line; e-GP awards the budget trace reaches; e-GP procuring offices; e-GP procuring offices, round 2; e-GP procuring offices matched by two readers; e-GP procuring offices matched by two readers, ministry-level pass; e-GP procuring offices, third reader; e-GP procuring entity names this office; e-GP contract award under the body's printed name; e-GP procuring offices matched to this local body by name and district; Procurement plans and award notices on the body's own website; e-GP contract award under the name the body prints on its own website; Award notices the body published; e-GP offices excluded from this body; Awards and facilities on the body's own website (rendered page); Sites named on the body's own page; Markets, terminals and other assets the body leases, allocates or runs, as its own page prints them; Operational sites on the body's own website; Operational sites on the body's own pages; Operational sites read again; Physical sites on the body's own page; Physical sites and owned buildings; Land and buildings in the audited statements; ADP projects building the body's facilities; Sites listed on the body's own website; Sites and administered institutions listed on the body's own website; Sites and land printed on the body's own website; Sites, land and facilities printed on the body's own website; Offices printed on the body's own website; Building named for the body, printed in its own publication or site; CAG audit findings; Facts in the body's own annual report; Documents that print the body's name, cited by a claim; Pages the field office's own portal published, with their file hash; PDFs the body's own site lists, with their file hash; PDFs the body's own portal published, with their file hash; Published PDFs whose tables print this body's name, with their file hash; Pages the union's own portal published, with their file hash; CAG audit reports; Established by; Dated events; Dated events on the body's own pages; Dated events in the establishing act; Dated events in gazette instruments; Dated events in the establishing instrument; Dated facts in the time layer; Dated events in the body's own document; Constitution and reconstitution dates; Dissolution by act; Statutory status; Notice on the statutory position; Founding date printed on the body's own site; Establishment or upgrade date printed in BBS District Statistics 2011 or on the body's own site; Gazette notices issued; Gazette notices that mention the body.
1,031 edges across 16 link types1,031 resolved
Link mentions · from documents
5779254ccca644c18aea27d78cb38f74
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: name · Passage id: 144471 · Mentions: 1
Matched by English name
a1c056aa0ef74236b3905979477a091d
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: name · Passage id: 155628 · Mentions: 1
BDPolicyLab's product index did not answer, so no item is listed here; it has not been classified as empty.
SOE budget books, actual-year column1
The book's actual-year column (book year minus 2) as printed: column_label প্রকৃত (actual), সাময়িক (provisional) or হিসাব, verbatim; column_label_is_prokrito marks প্রকৃত. head_office_only: the table covers the head office (প্রধান কার্যালয়) only. Rows are not summed; two books can print the same year.
SOE budget book actual: net profit or (deficit) · Tk −173.64 crore · FY2023-24
Expense lines in the body's own statements1
Concept total_expenses_sum_of_printed_lines: the statement prints no labelled total of expenses, so the value is the sum of the expense lines printed on its face for the year (cost of sales, operating, administrative and selling lines, finance cost, WPPF and other expense lines as printed). Income tax, income lines, subtotals, gains and other comprehensive income are excluded; a printed parent figure is counted instead of its breakdown. Two blind readers listed the same lines and reached the identical sum. It is not a printed total.
Own financial statements, sum of the printed expense lines (no total printed) · Tk 5,244.63 crore · FY2024-25 (year to 30 Jun 2025)
e-GP awards whose procuring office resolves to the body · 161 awards, Tk 83.64 crore contract value · awards 7 Mar 2017 to 17 Sep 2026
Annual report, body named on the cover · বার্ষিক প্রতিবেদন ২০২৫ · ২০২৫
Corpus documents that name the body, with their source and file hash22
Corpus documents that print the body's name (a mention link, name or acronym match), listed only with the document's own source URL and the sha256 of its archived file; url_basis says where the URL is recorded.
Corpus document naming the body · Sonali Bank Plc / Annual Report 2024 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2021 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · Document without a printed title
Corpus document naming the body · Document without a printed title
Corpus document naming the body · Document without a printed title
Corpus document naming the body · Document without a printed title
Corpus document naming the body · govtwin_min_power/bgdcl_gas_distribution_annual_report_2020.pdf · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · bgdcl gas distribution annual report 2020 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · a2c173a5-8557-4b94-b39e-829179f98897 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · petrobangla 6d72a7183a624751a3e0558f · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · petrobangla 748880e8ed2e433e92fa08b6 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2022 23 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2023 24 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2024 25 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · hcu gas production distribution consumption 2024 25 · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · Document without a printed title · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · bgdcl annual report 2018 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · hcu annual report gas production distribution · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · hcu gas production distribution consumption · retrieved 20 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · sonali bank annual report 2023 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2023 2024 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Corpus document naming the body · annual report 2024 2025 · retrieved 23 Sep 2026
Matched by English name
d3799012b9da4a2bb1efd61b63b997e2
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: name · Passage id: 163002 · Mentions: 1
Matched by English name
fb4ae0dcc30c48fb8516ca4bde2fc9da
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: name · Passage id: 177669 · Mentions: 1
Matched by English name
a2c173a5-8557-4b94-b39e-829179f98897
Mention kind: subject · Match kind: acronym · Passage id: 1217093 · Mentions: 13
Matched by acronym
A passage matched by more than one rule (English name and acronym) is listed once with both. Each passage links to its document; the corpus database's own hash, the same for every passage, is not shown as a document hash.
Link operates · to assets
বাখরাবাদ গ্যাস ডিষ্ট্রিবিউশন কো: লি: লক্ষ্মীপুর
Relation: operates · Counted: Yes
Matched by registry parent chain · bgdcl.lakshmipur.gov.bd sha256 2d058d1850ab
Link parent of · to bodies
বাখরাবাদ গ্যাস ডিষ্ট্রিবিউশন কো: লি: লক্ষ্মীপুর
Matched by entities.parent id · bgdcl.lakshmipur.gov.bd
Link parent of · from bodies
Matched by entities.parent id · bgdcl.gov.bd/pages/organograms/6922d91d933eb65569dfcb87
Link post in · from posts
ব্যবস্থাপনা পরিচালক (চলতি দায়িত্ব)
Matched by domain exact · bgdcl.gov.bd
Matched by domain exact · bgdcl.gov.bd
Matched by domain exact · bgdcl.gov.bd
Matched by domain exact · bgdcl.gov.bd
ব্যবস্থাপক(চলতি দায়িত্ব) অতিরিক্ত দায়িত্ব
Matched by domain exact · bgdcl.gov.bd
Link resolves to · from procuring offices
Bakhrabad Gas Distribution Company Limited
Resolution level: entity · Match confidence: 0.99
Matched by name exact and division name exact · e-GP procuring entity path (eprocure.gov.bd), Budget Speech Table-5 source
Engineering Service Department
Resolution level: entity · Match confidence: 0.99
Matched by name exact and division name exact · e-GP procuring entity path (eprocure.gov.bd), Budget Speech Table-5 source
Resolution level: entity · Match confidence: 0.99
Matched by name exact and division name exact · e-GP procuring entity path (eprocure.gov.bd), Budget Speech Table-5 source
Resolution level: entity · Match confidence: 0.99
Matched by name exact and division name exact · e-GP procuring entity path (eprocure.gov.bd), Budget Speech Table-5 source
Resolution level: entity · Match confidence: 0.99
Matched by name exact and division name exact · e-GP procuring entity path (eprocure.gov.bd), Budget Speech Table-5 source
Link seated at · to places
Matched by the district's BBS code · bgdcl.gov.bd/pages/static-pages/6922ddd9933eb65569e16a1c sha256 10b3ad69b27e
Link allocated to · from budget lines
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link allocates · from instruments
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link constitutes · from instruments
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link decided by · from decisions
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link empowers · from instruments
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link event of · from events
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link issued by · from instruments
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link regulated by · from products
No linked object is recorded yet.
Link executes · from projects
The ADP prints each executing agency as text with no registry id. The measured name match waits for a second reader before it is bound.
Simulate (S1, −10%): the engine refused this body (HTTP 503): {"error":"pipeline check failed","dependents":["scenario:S1"],"datasets":[],"failing":[{"dependent":"scenario:S1","dataset":null,"check":"report","detail":"TWIN_PIPELINE_DIR is not set"}]}. Open in simulate for Petrobangla, the body above it
Dated facts: none held for this body. Only facts with a date printed in a primary document: the act date on bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd, Bangladesh Gazette decisions published 2026-04-06 to 2026-09-17 (one parser's reading, not yet checked by a second), and, read by two readers, the amendment notes of Schedule I of the Rules of Business (revised up to February 2024) and the long title of the Act that establishes a body. Postings from Part II of the weekly Gazette 2015-2026 are one reader's reading (agy Gemini) checked by a code gate against the stored page; `readers` says whether a blind second reader agreed. No dated evidence is held for this body. State over time
BDPolicyLab's writing, keyed to this node
None of the 118 published issues (21 May 2026 to 19 Sept 2026) names this body. Matched by the body's name (Bakhrabad Gas Distribution Company Limited) printed in the issue.
The Daily Advisor is BPL's own AI-drafted policy writing, not evidence about this body.
Below: 3 BPL pages carry this body.
Decision points whose printed heading ties them to the body (link decided by), for this body and the bodies above it in the registry; each is an item of ALLOCATION OF BUSINESS AMONG THE DIFFERENT MINISTRIES AND DIVISIONS (Schedule I of the Rules of Business, 1996) (Revised up to February 2024).
This bodyBakhrabad Gas Distribution Company Limitednone
The body above itPetrobanglanone
2 levels above itEnergy and Mineral Resources Division13 decisions13 resolved
3 levels above itMinistry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resourcesnone