PJB launches tender for construction of CNG facility
Friday, February 1 2013 - 02:41 AM WIB
PT Pembangkitan Jawa Bali (PJB), a subsidiary of state-owned electricity company PLN, launched pre-qualification tender for EPC work of a planned storage compressed natural gas (CNG) plant.
The CNG storage facility to be constructed at PJB?s Muara Tawar power plant will have a capacity of 20 mmscfd.
?The CNG facility to be constructed at the Muara Tawar power plant will have a capacity of 20 mmscfd. It will function as a storage facility for gas, which will be used during peak hour,? Operational Director of PJB, Muljo Adjie told Petromindo.com Friday.
He said that the new facility will allow the Muara Tawar power plant to stop using the more expensive petroleum oil during peak hour, by switching to gas stored within the CNG facility.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak