JAKARTA: Indonesian state energy firm PT Pertamina does not expect to import any gas oil in 2016 following government rules to encourage the use of biodiesel, an official said on Thursday.
In addition to biodiesel subsidies, Indonesia’s government raised the minimum bio content in diesel fuel used for transport to 15 percent this year, up from 10 percent previously, and this will rise again in 2016 to 20 percent.
“We still import some portion of our diesel in 2015, but we foresee in 2016 we will not import any gas oil. Of course with the assumption that the biodiesel (rule) will be enforced by the government to become 20 percent,” Daniel S. Purba, Pertamina’s senior vice president for integrated supply chain, said in a seminar.
