Six oil, gas projects classified as national strategic projects

President Joko Widodo has signed Presidential Regulation No 3/2016 on the acceleration of 225 national strategic projects.

Directorate General of Oil and Gas at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources said in a statement Tuesday that six oil and gas projects are included in the list of the national strategic projects.

According to the presidential regulation, related government offices and regional administrations are required to provide support to help accelerate the implementation of the national strategic projects particularly in speeding up the permitting procedure.

The directorate said that the six oil and gas projects include a number of refinery projects namely the planned Bontang refinery project in East Kalimantan, and Tuban refinery project in East Java, and the upgrading of existing refineries in Central Java, Riau Islands, South Sumatra, West Java, and East Kalimantan.

Other projects are the construction of a 1 million-ton per annum LPG terminal in Banten, construction of a 139.24-km gas pipeline linking Belawan and Sei Mankei in North Sumatra with capacity of 75 mmscfd, and the development of mini LNG plant and LNG-LCNG station in Central Java, South Sulawesi, and Banten.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak