Winning bidder for Maluku mini refinery project to be announced in May
Thursday, February 2 2017 - 01:41 AM WIB
Tender for a planned mini oil refinery project in Maluku is currently still in progress, and that the winning bidder is expected to be announced in May of this year.
This was said by Director General of Oil and Gas at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources IGN Wiratmaja Puja in a statement issued Wednesday. ?It is still be evaluated by the tender team,? he said.
Last week, the directorate said that five of the seven participants in the PQ tender have passed to enter the next bidding stage. The five are PT Alam Bersami Sentosa; PT Tri Wahana Universal; consortium of PT Remaja Bangun Kencana, Changling Petrochemical, and Engineering Design Co Ltd; PT. Aliansi Lintas Teknologi; and consortium of PT Harmoni Drilling Services, and Oceanus Co Ltd.
Elsewhere, Wiratmaja said that tender for other planned mini refinery projects are still being prepared.
The government plans to develop mini refineries in eight clusters to help improve the cost efficiency of marginal oil fields located in remote regions.
The eight clusters include Cluster I-North Sumatra (Rantau and Pangkalan Susu), Cluster II-Selat Panjang Malaka (EMP Malacca Strait and Petroselat), Cluster III-Riau (Tonga, Siak, Pendalian, Langgak, West Area, Kisaran), Cluster IV-Jambi (Palmerah, Mengoepeh, Lemang and Karang Agung), Cluster V-Sumatera Selatan (Merangin II and Ariodamar), Cluster VI-Kalimantan Selatan (Tanjung), Cluster VII-North Kalimantan (Bunyu, Sembakung, Mamburungan and Pamusian Juwata), and Cluster VIII-Maluku (Oseil and Bula).
The mini refinery will have maximum capacity of 20,000 bpd, and investment for 10,000-bpd refinery is estimated at around Rp 2.5 trillion.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak