Chevron expands geothermal ops in Indonesia
Monday, August 13 2007 - 11:59 PM WIB
Production from the Darajat III unit, operated by Chevron's subsidiary Chevron Geothermal Indonesia, Ltd., increases the total capacity at the Darajat geothermal facility to 259 MW, the company said in a release.
The combined output from Chevron's Darajat and Salak geothermal operations now produces sufficient renewable energy to supply approximately 3.9 million homes in Java.
Chevron's global geothermal operations have installed capacity to produce a total of 1,273 MW of geothermal energy, accounting for more than half of all privately developed capacity.
The Darajat III unit has been approved by the United Nations as a Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project, a market-based instrument of the UN's Kyoto Protocol to encourage implementation of cost-effective greenhouse gas reductions. Darajat III is the largest geothermal energy project to be registered under the CDM program.
Chevron operates four geothermal facilities in the Asia-Pacific region. In the early 1970s, the company made two discoveries in the Philippines, which led to the development of the Tiwi and Mak-Ban geothermal resources.
Commercial production from two further discoveries, Salak and Darajat in West Java, began in the 1990s. Darajat Units II and III were developed in conjunction with local Indonesian partner PT. Darajat Geothermal Indonesia under a Joint Operation Contract with Pertamina.(alex)