Indonesia turning from world's leading exporter to importer

By Amanda Battersby Singapore

 13 December 2012 23:59 GMT

Indonesia’s liquefied natural gas industry is under­going significant change. Once the world’s top LNGexporter, the country is now converting one of its two grande dames of liquefaction — the Arun plant in Aceh — into a receiving and regasification terminal.

Meanwhile, the other decades-old LNG facility, Badak NGL’s Bontang project in East Kalimantan, now has nine trains with a combined nameplate capacity of about 22 million tonnes per annum — on paper, an impressive increase from the 3.3 million tpa capacity when Bontang came into operation in 1977 as a two-train project.

However, in recent years this project — as well as Aceh — has failed to fulfil its contractual obligations as feedstock gas supplies were not sufficient.

The Chevron-operated IDD project, exploiting five deep-water fields off East Kalimantan, will provide a much-needed…

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