Hoegh LNG opens Indonesian branch office

By Bernard Loebs

Norway?s Hoegh LNG, a global provider of LNG infrastructure, has officially opened its Indonesian branch office in Jakarta.

Present at the ceremony was Edy Hermantoro, Director General of Oil and Gas at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, who said that the company?s move was a testament to its confidence in Indonesia?s oil and gas upstream sector.

Edy represented the Ministry on invitation from the Norwegian Embassy in Jakarta.

In January 2012, H?egh LNG and PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) signed a final agreement for Hoegh LNG to provide PGN with an FSRU and mooring system offshore Sumatra. The project will employ the first of H?egh LNG's newly-built FSRUs which currently is under construction at Hyundai Heavy Industries Ltd in Korea, with target start-up date in 2014.

Editing by Dadan Wijaksana