Indonesia outlines final plan to move to natural gas
The Indonesian government has outlined its plan to expand use of compressed natural gas and it aims to do that by adding natural gas refueling stations, according to a Jakarta-dated report published earlier in February by the Chinese state official news agency Xinhua.
Indonesia's state-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina will run 44 gas refilling stations on main Java Island and Bali Island before the end of this year, up from 18 currently, according to comments attributed to Basuki Trikora, vice president marketing.
Wacik said the government wants to gradually add the number of the gas refueling stations by up to 100 units in years to come and 1,000 units in the longer term, Xinhua reported.
Earlier reports had indicated the increases could be of up to 150 stations annually.
Indonesia has a huge array of 104 trillion cubic natural gas reserve and only 3.7 billion barrel for oil, according to data from the country's upstream regulator, SKK Migas.
