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Indonesia’s PGN unveils three-

year gas plan

INDONESIA INDONESIA’S state-owned Perusahaan Gas Balongan refinery’s gas supply from Pertamina
Negara (PGN) has unveiled a three-year plan EP and Pertamina Hulu Energi, which have been
to support the government’s drive to bolster feeding the facility via a Pertamina Gas pipeline,
domestic natural gas consumption. this year. In order to hit this target, PGN said it
he government wants to reduce the country’s would finish building the SSWJ-WJA pipeline in
demand for oil by replacing it with gas where the first half of this year.
possible, or coal, in order to cut both the national Suprijanto added that the long-term needs of
fuel import bill as well as levels of pollution. the Balikpapan refinery would be met through
PGN, a unit of state-owned Pertamina, said the development of Senipah-Balikpapan gas
on January 13 that it intended to complete a pipeline, while the Cilacap refinery would be
range of pipeline projects in 2021-2023 that fed from PGN’s liquefied natural gas (LNG)
would help feed industrial, commercial and res- portfolio.
idential customers. Suprijanto said: “PGN is preparing the con-
The list included the South Sumatra West struction of the Cilacap LNG receiving terminal,
Java (SSWJ) to West Java Area (WJA) integration which is targeted to start operating in the second
pipeline, which is slated for the first half of this half of 2022.”
year. Other projects include the development of In addition to tapping the company’s LNG
pipelines in North and Central Sumatra, Kalim- portfolio for downstream projects, PGN is also
antan and Central Java, as well as a Kendal-Se- working to help state-owned power utility PLN
marang-Demak pipeline. switch 52 diesel-fired thermal power plants
In the downstream, Pertamina senior spokes- (TPPs) over to LNG feedstock.
man Agus Suprijanto said PGN also intended to The Indonesian Energy Minister ordered the
supply all of Pertamina’s refineries in addition to two companies in January 2020 to work together
standalone petrochemical projects. on achieving the switchover by 2022.™
PGN intends to take over handling the

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