Indonesia Dispatches First LNG Shipment From Tangguh -Government
06 7월 2009 - 12:20PM
Dow Jones News
Indonesia Monday dispatched its first shipment of liquefied
natural gas from the Tangguh facility in West Papua, the Ministry
of Energy and Mineral Resources said.
The consignment, for South Korea's POSCO (005490.SE), marks the
commencement of the gas processing facility after it secured permit
from the government in 2005.
Tangguh is run by a consortium led by BP PLC (BP), which holds a
37.16% stake. Other partners are MI Berau B.V., which owns 16.3%,
CNOOC Ltd. with 13.9%, Nippon Oil Exploration Corp. with 12.23%, KG
Berau/KG Wiriagar with 10%, LNG Japan Corp. with 7.35% and Talisman
Energy Inc. with 3.06%.
The facility has agreed to sell 2.6 million tons of LNG to
China's Fujian terminal per year, a total of 1.15 million tons per
year to South Korea's K-Power and POSCO and up to 3.7 million tons
annually to Sempra's terminal in Baja California, Mexico.
-By Deden Sudrajat; Dow Jones Newswires; 62-21 39831277;
I-Made.Sentana@dowjones.com