{"id":27929,"date":"2015-08-27T03:06:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-27T01:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=27929"},"modified":"2015-08-25T13:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T11:36:38","slug":"pertamina-to-invest-us480-million-for-bio-aviation-fuel-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/pertamina-to-invest-us480-million-for-bio-aviation-fuel-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Pertamina to Invest US$480 Million for Bio-Aviation Fuel Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kuta, Bali &#8211; State-owned oil and gas company, Pertamina plans to invest approximately US$ 480 million to produce bio-aviation turbine fuel (avtur\/jet fuel), as well as build a refinery.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Next year, we will conduct a fit, front-end engineering design study,&#8221; the Manager of Technology and Product Development, Directorate of New and Renewable Energy, Pertamina, Andianto Hidayat, revealed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said the company also intended to build a bio-avtur refinery by 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Pertamina is targeting bio-aviation fuel production of up to 26 million liters per year and is expected to supply the needs of non-fossil fuels for aircrafts.<\/p>\n<p>The fuel, made from palm oil, Hidayat added, is predicted to surpass the target for the national aviation industry, where bio-aviation fuel use is currently pegged at about 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesias airline industry does not use environmentally friendly fuels. However, Minister of Transport Ignatius Jonan said the national aviation industry was growing at an annual rate of 10 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Hidayat said the bio-aviation fuel refinery will be built on-site near the airport, and would supply the raw material.<\/p>\n<p>The construction and development of the bio-aviation fuel refinery is expected to support the governments efforts to reduce carbon emissions from the aviation industry by up to 26 percent by 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kuta, Bali &#8211; State-owned oil and gas company, Pertamina plans to invest approximately US$ 480 million to produce bio-aviation turbine fuel (avtur\/jet fuel), as well as build a refinery. &#8220;Next year, we will conduct a fit, front-end engineering design study,&#8221; the Manager of Technology and Product Development, Directorate of New and Renewable Energy, Pertamina, Andianto [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5818],"supplier":[8863],"class_list":["post-27929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-biofuel","supplier-pt-pertamina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27929"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=27929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}