Pertamina invites public to give input for Tuban refinery AMDAL
Tuesday, January 10 2017 - 04:39 AM WIB
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State-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina and its Russian partner Rosneft have invited the public to provide inputs for the environmental impact assessment (or AMDAL) study of the planned Tuban oil refinery project in East Java.
Pertamina Director of Processing and Petrochemical Megaproject, Rachmad Hardadi said in a statement on Monday the kick-off meeting for the AMDAL and the Environment and Social Impact Analysis (ESIA) was made on December 14.
?In line with the existing regulations and as a follow up to the AMDAL and ESIA kick off, starting January 9 we announced the implementation of the AMDAL for the development and operation of the integrated refinery, and we invite the public to provide input and suggestions until the January 20 deadline,? he said.
Pertamina said in December of last year that the AMDAL study, part of key requirement before starting land preparation for the refinery project, is expected to be completed in six months, while ESIA is targeted to be completed in September 2017. President Joko Widodo has asked Pertamina to be able to start construction of the Tuban refinery project in July of next year.
Pertamina has previously also appointed a number of consultants to carry out the bank feasibility study (or BFS) including Technip for technical aspect, Nexan for marketing analysis, and the Institute Teknologi Sepuluh November University (ITS) and Airlangga University for local aspect study.
Rachmad said previously the studies by Nexan and ITS and Airlangga have been completed, while the study by Technip is expected to be completed in January.
Once the BFS has been completed, Rachmad said that Pertamina can make capital expenditure estimate, and the material balance so that the economic scale of the project can be determined in February, by which time the first pre-investment decision will be decided.
Pertamina said that the refinery project, which will have a design capacity of 300,000 bpd, is targeted to be completed at the end of 2021.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak