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Pertamina to use IOCs’ technology
to develop CCUS
ENERGY INDONESIA’S state-owned oil and gas com- emissions from Indonesia, but also in the region”,
TRANSITION pany Pertamina is making agreements with according to Nikkei.
international oil companies (IOCs) and other The country has pledged to reach net zero
major firms to study their technology in order to CO2 emissions by 2060.
implement carbon capture utilisation and stor- Pertamina has joined with a number of Jap-
age (CCUS) projects. anese companies to pursue its carbon seques-
In recent months Pertamina has entered tration and renewable energy goals. There is an
into agreements with US, French and Japanese agreement with Mitsui & Co. to study the fields
companies designed to enable it to pursue net- in central Sumatra. Another study will be under-
zero goals. Recently, the company signed an taken with Japan’s Janus and J-Power in the Gun-
agreement with the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals dih gas field in Central Java. JGC Holdings will
National Corp. (JOGMEC) concerning the also participate in that study, as will Indonesia’s
study of carbon dioxide (CO2) injection tech- Bandung Institute of Technology. And Pertam-
nology for its many ageing wells, Japan’s Nikkei ina and Japan Petroleum Exploration (JAPEX) Pertamina
reported. are engaged in a study for the Sukowati oilfield
The injection of fluids and gases into oil and in Central Java. has joined
gas wells – enhanced oil recovery (EOR) – has Two separate joint study agreements were
been in use for many years by companies that signed in May with ExxonMobil and with with a number
employ the technique to produce more hydro- France’s Air Liquide. The study with ExxonMo-
carbons from ageing reservoirs. Nikkei said the bil is concentrating on deploying CCUS tech- of Japanese
study that Petronas and JOGMEC planned to nology in fields located in South Sumatra, East companies to
undertake would target the Jatibarang field in Kalimantan in Borneo and West Java. The study
West Java. involves EOR, plus carbon storage and hydrogen pursue its carbon
With numerous empty and mature oil and production. The study with Air Liquide is focus-
gas reservoirs spread throughout Indonesia, ing on Pertamina’s refinery in East Kalimantan sequestration
Pertamina is looking into carbon storage tech- with the intention of enhancing methanol and
nology with a view to establishing the country as hydrogen production. and renewable
a carbon storage hub in Southeast Asia. Nicke said the use of carbon injection for energy goals.
Indonesia was once a member of OPEC and EOR has already shown a benefit to the com-
produced 1.5mn barrels per day (bpd) of crude, pany’s mature fields, but added that Indonesia
but its current oil output averages about 616,000 needed policies that would support carbon stor-
bpd. With that in mind, Pertamina’s CEO, Nicke age, such as a carbon trading mechanism and a
Widyawati, said recently during a Group of 20 carbon tax that would make such projects eco-
(G20) meeting in Bali that although production nomically viable. Otherwise private companies
has declined, the country could use its empty would not be encouraged to reduce carbon emis-
reservoirs for CO2 storage – “not just for CO2 sions, she warned.
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