Four firms sign MoU to provide gas for smelter in Sulawesi
Friday, February 12 2016 - 03:26 PM WIB
PT Pembangkitan Jawa Bali (PJB), a subsidiary of public utility PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) (Persero), has signed Memorandum of Understanding with PT Titis Sampurna, PT Padma Energi Indonesia and PT Ceria Nugraha Indotama to provide power for a planned nickel smelter in Kolaka, Southeast Sulawesi.
The MoU was signed on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Bali Clean Energy Forum 2016.
Under the MoU, Titis Sempurna and Padma Energi will build an LNG receiving terminal and provide gas for a gas-fired power plant to be built by PJB and the power will be supplied to the nickel smelter to be built by Ceria, Muljo Aji, President Director PJB told Petromindo.com after the signing that the MoU.
?We?ll cooperate from upstream side to downstream side,? he said.
The power plant is designed with a capacity of 200 MW, but in the first stage, PJB will build a 65 MW, he said.
Padma Energi?s President Budi Indianto said the LNG to the Kolaka receiving terminal will be delivered from an LNG receiving and distribution terminal that will be built in Celukan Bawang, Buleleng, Bali. The terminal, which is designed to be a LNG distribution terminal for eastern Indonesia, will be built by the firm together with PT Pelnido Energi Logistik, which is a subsidiary of state owned port operator PT Pelindo III.
The project is scheduled for completion in the first quarter of 2017.
Editing by Johannes Simbolon