Swap plan delays extra gas shipments to S’pore [News]
October 24, 2011 by Eugene Tay
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By Ronnie Lim, The Business Times, 24 Oct 2011.
Supplies of additional Indonesian piped gas to Singapore – earlier scheduled to begin arriving here from Oct 1 – are being held up, amid ongoing discussions over an Indonesian gas swap plan aimed at catering to domestic gas needs.
As a result of gas pipeline connection issues, the Indonesians want to use the existing Sumatra-Singapore pipeline, which runs through Batam, to divert some current Singapore gas supplies to a new power plant on the Indonesian island, with this made up for with gas from West Natuna instead.
But the swap is complicated as it involves two different gasfield operators, two separate Singapore gas importers, as well as different pipeline operators. Read more
Extra Indonesia piped gas to be delivered soon [News]
October 3, 2011 by Eugene Tay
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By Ronnie Lim, The Business Times, 3 Oct 2011.
The first deliveries of additional Indonesian piped gas supplies to Singapore will start this month, sources said. The extra 86 million standard cubic feet daily (mscfd) of gas is being brought in by Sembcorp Gas under a second gas supply agreement (GSA) it struck in April 2008, over three years ago.
The deal remains intact, despite recent calls by Indonesian officials for the country’s gas exports to be reduced and redirected to meet growing domestic needs.
The latest incoming gas supplies will add about 12 per cent to Singapore’s current gas imports from Indonesia.
Under an earlier GSA, SembGas is already bringing in some 325-340 mscfd also from the Natuna gasfields operated by ConocoPhillips and Premier Oil. Read more
Indonesia won’t cut gas supply to Singapore [News]
September 30, 2011 by Eugene Tay
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By Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja and Zakir Hussain, The Straits Times, 30 Sep 2011.
INDONESIA will not cut its supply of natural gas to Singapore nor change the price, officials said yesterday, a week after a minister suggested that the country should stop its gas exports.
What it will change, however, is the source of gas: It will come from the Natuna Sea in the north instead of South Sumatra, where Singapore’s gas is piped from now.
‘There won’t be any change in the volume, only in the source,’ the spokesman for the country’s upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas, Mr Gde Pradnyana, told The Straits Times yesterday.
‘It should start in October. We hope to get government approval before then,’ he added, but declined to give further details on why the switch is being done. Read more
Cut natural gas exports to Singapore: Indonesian minister [News]
September 22, 2011 by Eugene Tay
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By Wahyudi Soeriaatmadja, Indonesian Correspondent, The Straits Times, 22 Sep 2011.
JAKARTA: Indonesia’s top economic minister Hatta Rajasa yesterday urged the government to cut what he called excessive natural gas shipments to Singapore because they were hurting domestic industries, which do not have enough supplies to meet their growing needs.
‘Indonesia needs its own gas,’ he told a parliamentary commission that oversees the energy sector.
‘The gas supply to Singapore is too much… Exports to Singapore should stop,’ he added. Read more
Indonesia Geothermal Energy World
April 30, 2009 by Eugene Tay
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Date: 22-23 July 2009
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