Pertamina Prepares 180 Thousand Gas Canisters

Workers check LPG gas canisters at a canister manufacturing factory in Cikarang, West Java July 9, 2010. PT Pertamina on Wednesday began selling gas regulator hoses that meet with the Indonesian National Standards (SNI) to minimise accidents from gas explosions. A National Consumer Protection Agency study showed that 20 percent of regulators and 7 percent of canisters did not meet safety standards, resulting in 95 explosions, 22 deaths and 131 hospitalizations in Jarkarta, Greater Jakarta and West Java from 2007 to June 2010.

Bengkulu, Indonesia (News Today) - State oil and gas company PT Pertamina has prepared 180 three-kilogram gas canisters under the kerosene conversion into gas program in Bengkulu province.

"Right now the gas canisters or cylinders with other equipment have been collected in Pertamina’s storage facilities," General Manager of Pertamina’s marketing facilities Haris Budiarto said here Sunday.

Some 720 gas canisters had already been procured along with 680,000 regulators and hoses in new condition ready for distribution to the customers.

"Bengkulu province needed 40 thousand kiloliters per year or four percent from the national needs," he said.

The government’s sources of kerosene are very limited while demand kept increasing, Haris said. Nationally, he said, the kerosene subsidy in a year may reach Rp15 trillion, but under the conversion program 75 billion per year had been saved.

The conversion program was beneficial to the government, as it saved Rp70 billion per year, while at consumers level, the saving may reached Rp38,520 to Rp36,750 per month.

The saving of kerosene under the program of reducing fuel oil subsidy had been increasing, and Bengkulu province was the third in five areas of southern parts of Sumatra which had been carrying out the kerosene to gas conversion program, he said. Previously a similar program had been implemented in South Sumatra in 2009, followed by Lampung province early in 2010.

"Then by the end of 2010 it is carried out in Bengkuluy province, the other provinces like Jambi and Bangka Belitung provinces", he said.

In the meantime, Bengkulu deputy governor Junaidi Hamsyah said the distribution of gas stoves for people in Bengkulu was started from within Bengkulu city, like Kandang Limun village 570 gas stoves.

Source : kompas

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