(MENAFNEditorial)
JAKARTA February 6 2015 – PT Pertamina keeps developing the alternatives of fuel in order to reduce dependency on fossil energy import.
Dwi Soetjipto President Director of Pertamina affirms that the company continues to look for alternatives from the existing fuel considering that Indonesia still has dependency on fuel and becomes the importer of oil.
“Hopefully we could get more varied alternatives of fuel in the future. This will be required to build energy empowerment and sovereignty” he said at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta Thursday (2/5/2015).
Pertamina is now testing new type of fuel in the form of gasoline research octane number (RON) 88 as compounded with several other addictive contents.
The fuel alternative which will be sold in Java Madura and Bali is claimed to be environmentally friendly and economic compared to the premium fuel with same content of RON. The price will be even more competitive compared to the premium fuel.
The Research and Development Research of Pertamina is also developing three types of alternative fuel to substitute the diesel fuel namely Bio-Diesel Euro 5 Algae to Oil and Diesel Emulsion.
Bio-Diesel Euro 5 is made from a chemical process with 100% palm oil and Hydrotreated Bio-Diesel catalyst as created by Pertamina.
The Algae to Oil is processed from algae in tropical countries such as Indonesia and turned into Bio-Diesel with Euro 4 up to Euro 5 standards. Meanwhile the Diesel Emulsion is created from the composition of Diesel water and surfactant. Read more..
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