Bangladesh, July 27 -- A fire at a single floating LNG terminal off the coast of Cox's Bazar has plunged much of Bangladesh into its worst gas crunch in years, idling factories, emptying stoves in millions of homes, and forcing drivers to queue for hours at CNG pumps - a crisis officials say could persist for days as repair crews race to bring the damaged unit back online.Geographic Reference

The blaze broke out last Tuesday at one of the country's two floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs), operated by US-based Excelerate Energy, cutting the country's LNG-based gas supply by nearly half.

The damage has pushed national gas supply below 2,150 million cubic feet per day (mmcft/d ), down from an average of roughly 2,700 mmcft/d...