Pertagas: Porong-Grati pipeline to be onstream this June

By Febry Silaban

PT Pertamina Gas (Pertagas), a subsidiary of state-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina (Persero), said that construction process of a gas pipeline linking Porong - Grati in East Java has entered the final phase so that it may come onstream in June of this year.

?The gas pipeline Porong-Grati project has reached 90 percent completion,? Corporate Secretary of Pertagas Adiatma Sardjito said to Petromindo.com.

Previously, Pertagas Public Relations and CSR Manager Hatim Ilwan said that investment allocated for the project is about US$87 million.

He added that since groundbreaking in January of last year, land acquisition for the 57 km gas pipeline project has been mostly completed, covering about 47 km of the planned route.

In the first phase, about 25 mmscfd of gas from the Peluang gas field operated by Santos will be distributed via the pipeline to industries in East Java. The pipeline has a capacity of up to 100 mmscfd, and is an open access status pipeline.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak