Pertamina continues to operate Dumai refinery at 70% capacity

PT Pertamina, Indonesia's state oil company, continues to operate its Dumai refinery at 70 percent capacity because of damage suffered at a cooling unit, The Jakarta Post reported Saturday.

The refinery may be fully operational by next week, Suroso Atmomartoyo, Pertamina's director of processing, said in Jakarta Friday. Pertamina has no need to increase imports because of the problems, he said.

Pertamina shut down the crude distillation unit at Dumai refinery on June 21 and restarted the 120,000 barrels-a-day refinery two days later at 60 percent capacity.

Indonesia imports about a third of its oil products because its daily refining capacity of 1.06 million barrels isn't sufficient to meet domestic demand. (*)