Kailashtila MSTE Plant, a magnificent establishment of Sylhet Gas Fields Ltd. is situated on 14.92 acres of land on the bank of river Surma at Golapganj Upazila, about 22 km northeast of Sylhet City. A technological masterpiece in the field of gas treatment facilities and the first of its kind in Bangladesh, this gas processing plant never fails to impress the connoisseur for it features some fabulous technologies.

As it was evident that the gas in Kailashtila structure was enriched in natural gas liquids (NGL) and a conventional gas processing plant was unable to extract NGL, a special type of plant needed to be installed. Therefore, in order to ensure optimum use of gas in the structure, a Molecular Sieve Turbo Expander (MSTE) type gas processing plant featuring cryogenic mechanism was built so that the temperature of gas stream could be reduced to as low as -87⁰C. As a result, in addition to 7-8 barrels of heavy condensate, one million cubic feet of raw natural gas was to liberate as much as 8-10 barrels of NGL, which would have not been possible if a conventional type gas processing plant were introduced.

Press Construction (UK) Ltd. was employed as EPC contractor to build Kailashtila MSTE plant. They began construction in 1992 and completed almost three years later in 1995. Since then, this plant has been in operation. This plant is capable of processing 90 million cubic feet of natural gas. The processed natural Gas is supplied to National Gas Grid Line and Jalalabad Gas. On the other hand, between the two by-products of natural gas of this palnt, heavy condensate is supplied to Private Refineries or Rashidpur Condensate Fractionation Plant and NGL to a NGL Fractionation Plant of Rupantarita Prakritik Gas Company Ltd. (RPGCL), located at a distance of about 2 km from MSTE plant. RPGCL fractions this NGL to produce Motor Sprit and Liquified Petroleum Gas (LPG). An LPG bottling plant of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC), adjacent to the NGL fractionation plant of RPGCL, fill cylinders with this LPG and sell this LPG cylinders to general public for use as domestic fuel.