Sumatra-S?pore gas pipeline will link up Malaysia in 2005
Thursday, July 31 2003 - 03:41 AM WIB
PGN?s president director WMP Simanjuntak said in Jakarta on Wednesday that the construction of the new gas pipeline which would connect the western coast of Malaysia and the end part of the South Sumatra-Singapore pipeline on Pimping island would be commenced in 2005.
?The 28-inch pipeline will be able to transmit gas of 35 million standard cubic feet per day (MMSCFD),? he said, adding that PGN was currently still approaching the Malaysian government to find the potential buyers of the gas that would be transmitted to the country.
He said that the South Sumatra-Singapore gas pipeline, the first stage of the ASEAN gas pipeline network, would be also linked with Thailand after the construction of the Malaysian connection was completed.
Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri is scheduled to inaugurate the newly constructed South Sumatra-Singapore gas pipeline that would in the first stage supply about 150 MMSCFD of gas to the neighboring country.
The new gas pipeline gas been also designed to meet the growing gas need from industries on the country?s largest industrial bonded zone of Batam. ?On the first stage, PGN will supply about 50 MMSCFD for industries on the island,? Simanjuntak said.
He also said that the preparation for the construction of the 400-km gas pipeline which would link Duri in Riau and Belawan in North Sumatra was underway. ?We hope the construction that will cost some US$300 million can be started in 2004 and be completed in 2006,? he added. (*)