Pertamina' Arun LNG Regasification, Modified Storage Facility to be Online in 2014

Pertamina’s regasification and modified storage facility at Arun LNG in Aceh, Indonesia is on schedule to become operational from 2014, reports news agency Reuters.

The hub will cost more than $80 million and include a 3 million tonne per year regasification unit and alterations to its current 600,000 cubic meter LNG storage facility, adds the news agency.

"Our objective in building this LNG hub in Arun is for the energy security of Indonesia," Salis Aprilian, senior vice president for engineering & operation management of gas at Pertamina, told Reuters.

According to Reuters, the plant currently processes natural gas into LNG, mostly for export, and while the new hub will be able to still feed export markets, it will focus on supplying rising domestic demand.

The LNG regasification plant will come online in 2014, followed by the modified storage facility in 2015.

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