PKN's coal up grading facility is planned to resume operation in June 2017
Saturday, March 4 2017 - 05:46 AM WIB
Petromindo|Khalsa
Coal mining company PT Pesona Khatulistiwa Nusantara (PKN) stated that it will resume operation of its coal upgrading facility in Sekayan, North Kalimantan, in June 2017.
PKN's General and Development Director, Tria Suprajeni told Petromindo.com on Friday that currently the coal upgrading facility is still undergoing repair process. "Our plan is to resume operation in June 2017," he said, without providing further details.
In December of last year, Jeffrey Mulyono, PKN's President Director told Petromindo.com that the plant was expected to resume operation in February 2017. The coal upgrading facility was suspended in September 2016, after started operation early in the year, due to technical problem. Jeffrey, however, didn't elaborate what the problem was.
Jeffrey said at the time the company was targeting around 600,000 tons of coal output for 2017 from the facility with calorific value of 5,000 kcal/kg with required input of 1.2 million tons of 3,200 kcal/kg of low rank coal. PKN teams up with PT ZJG Resources Technology in building the coal upgrading plant, which also involved Chinese investor to develop the coal upgrading technology.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak