Petronas, Shell to build gas stations outside Java

The government has licensed foreign oil and gas companies Shell and Petronas to build gas stations outside Java later this year, an Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry official said.

 

"But I cannot mention where the gas stations will be built," the director of downstream business development at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, Erie Soedarmo, said as quoted by Antara on Thursday.

 

The two companies currently run a number of gas stations in Jakarta and environs.

 

The planned construction of gas stations could be part of the companies` preparations to engage in the sale of premium gasoline and subsidized diesel oil, he said. (*)