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Jakarta – Presidential candidate number 02 Prabowo Subianto has a solution to the problem of fuel oil (BBM) in the country.
Dradjad Wibowo, a member of the Prabowo-Sandiaga's winning body economic team, said one way is to boost the development of oil and gas infrastructure such as refineries.
What is the current state of the refinery in Indonesia?
According to PT Pertamina (Persero), quoted by detikFinance, Wednesday (28/11/2018), Pertamina built its last oil refinery about 20 years ago.
The most recent refinery built by Pertamina is the Sorong Refinery, which has been in operation since 1997, and the Balongan Refinery was commissioned in 1994, after which
In addition to the minimum quantity, Pertamina's refining capacity has also begun to fall behind.
Currently, domestic oil requirements are 1.3 to 1.5 million barrels per day. The Pertamina refinery only has an installed capacity of 1.03 million barrels.
But since technology has been around for a long time, processed crude oil can not be optimized. How not, on 6 refineries owned by Pertamina, most of them have been operating for over 30 years.
Under these conditions, the maximum production of refineries will currently total only 900,000 barrels / day. This figure actually increased compared to 2016, which was only 800,000 barrels a day, but still below the national consumption figure.
As a result, fuel shortages must be offset by imports. This condition weighs heavily on public finances.
The situation reflected in the Indonesian trade balance in October 2018 has become a deficit again. This time the deficit was $ 1.82 billion.
The deficit was caused by imports totaling $ 17.62 billion, while exports from one year to the next ($ 15.8 billion).
The director of the Central Statistical Agency (BPS), Suhariyanto, said that the rise in the value of imports, which had reached 23.66%, was due to oil and gas (oil and gas). Crude oil imports have increased.
"Because there is an increase in imports of crude oil, oil and gas products," Suhariyanto said recently.
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(DNA / ANG)
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