FSRU Lampung receives second LNG delivery from Tangguh plant

By Godang Sitompul

 

The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) in Lampung, owned by IDX-listed gas distribution company PT PGN Tbk, received on Sunday a second delivery of LNG cargo from the Tangguh LNG plant in Papua.

 

?This is the second cargo (about 137,700 cubic meters) of LNG received by the FSRU Lampung from the total 1.1 million cubic meters of LNG to be delivered by Tangguh (to the FSRU) this year,? said Mugiono, President Director of PT PGN LNG Indonesia, the operator of the FSRU and a subsidiary of PGN. The FSRU received its first delivery of a cargo of LNG from Tangguh on April 2.

 

?Negotiation is currently in progress to obtain additional cargoes (of LNG) from other sources,? Mugiono added.

 

He explained that the gas will be used to meet demand from customers in the western part of Java and southern part of Sumatra including gas-fired power plants.

 

The LNG will undergo regasification process at the FSRU before being transmitted via an underwater pipeline to the Labuan Maringgai receiving station, which is connected with the South Sumatra West Java gas network.

 

The FSRU Lampung has an LNG storage capacity of 170,000 cubic meters, and regasification capacity of 240 mmscfd. PGN has also developed mining LNG sea transportation vessels to deliver gas from the FSRU to power plants.

 

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak