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Jokowi inaugurates Tangguh Train 3, kick starts CCUS project in Papua
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BP gas and low carbon energy executive vice president Anja Isabel (left), President Joko “Jokowi“ Widodo (second left) and Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Arifin Tasrif inaugurate Tangguh Train 3 plant in West Papua, on Nov. 24, 2023. (Youtube/Presidential Secretariat/-)
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resident Joko “Jokowi” Widodo inaugurated the US$4.83 billion Tangguh Train 3 project on Friday, making the overall Tangguh project the largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer in Indonesia.
The facility, located in West Papua, is operated by BP through BP Berau on behalf of the other production-sharing contract (PSC) partners as a contractor to the Upstream Oil and Gas Special Regulatory Task Force (SKK Migas).
The Train 3 project will increase Tangguh’s annual LNG production by 3.8 million tonnes to 11.4 million tonnes. Previously, the first two LNG trains in the facility had a capacity of 7.6 million tonnes annually.
Indonesia aims to produce 12 billion standard cubic feet per day of gas by 2030 and Jokowi said the project would “significantly” help to achieve that target.
The government in December last year granted BP a 20-year extension to 2055 of its PSC for the Tangguh gas field, which feeds the LNG plant.
SKK Migas chairman Dwi Soetjipto said the Tangguh Train 3 would operate at full capacity starting in early December, according to a press statement released on Friday.
Initially, the third Tangguh liquefaction train was to begin operations in late 2019, but that was delayed to the end of 2023. BP and SKK Migas were previously aiming for the first production to take place in September.
