A carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) project at the Tangguh liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in West Papua has been approved in what developers claim will make Tangguh one of the cleanest LNG plants in the world.
carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS) project at the Tangguh liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in West Papua has been approved in what developers claim will rank Tangguh among the LNG plants with the lowest greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensities worldwide.
British Petroleum (BP) as the operator of the plant announced on Monday that the Upstream Oil and Gas Special Regulatory Taskforce (SKKMigas) had approved a plan by BP and its partners to develop the Ubadari natural gas field and increase output at the Vorwata gas field using CCUS.
The new developments are expected to unlock additional recovery of 1.3 trillion cubic feet of gas from the new Ubadari Field and the enhanced Vorwata Field.
“The project is [expected] to play a major part in meeting [Indonesia’s] gas production aspirations while significantly reducing emissions,” BP gas and low carbon energy vice president Dev Sanyal said in a statement on Monday.
Indonesia has committed itself to reducing GHG emissions by 29 percent by 2030 in its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) under the Paris Agreement and to meeting at least 23 percent of its primary energy supply from renewable sources by 2025
Gas and renewable energy are predicted to form the backbone of the country’s energy mix by 2050, according to the National Energy Plan (RUEN), contributing 24 and 31 percent, respectively.
Read also: Gas integral to transition to clean energy: Gas industry
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