Sanaman Coal plans FS next year for power plant project
Tuesday, December 1 2015 - 02:13 AM WIB
Coal mining PT Sanaman Coal plans to carry out feasibility study (FS) next year for its planned mine mouth power plant project in Musi Banyuasin, South Sumatra.
Ben Lawson, Chief Operating Officer of Sanaman Coal told Petromindo.com on Monday that currently the company is conducting the pre-feasibility study for the planned 2x150 MW coal-fired power plant.
?We are currently conducting the pre-feasibility study and we have a good signal from the South Sumatra governor, and he will support us for issuing the location permit,? Lawson said, adding that the permit will be given by the governor if the pre-feasibility study has been done.
?Has we obtained the location permit we will have the feasibility study followed by proposal to PLN (state-owned electricity firm), and we are targeting that all the process will be done by 2016,? he said.
Earlier Lawson stated that Sanaman Coal has obtained the result of the newest JORC from its coal concession in Musi Banyuasin, which estimated that the concession has 102.5 million tons reserves. Prior to this, based on the result of JORC in 2012 the concession has about 87 million tons reserves from about 24 percent of the 9,871 hectares of the total concession with the coal calorific value of 3,600 GAR.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak