Beberapa hari yang lalu media massa mengabarkan sudah ada "beberapa" industri besar yang serius menyatakan berminat investasi untuk memproduksi bio-diesel, atau bio-ethanol. Ternyata salah satu dari industri tersebut berasal dari Medco group (perusahaan di bidang perminyakan di indonesia). Kalau Medco bilang berminat, saya rasa mestinya ini serius ...
pls. joint our mailing list: < http://groups.yahoo.com/group/energi_baru > =====( IM )==================================== <http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaillatestnews.asp? fileid=20051216173319&irec=2> ------------------------------------------------------------------ Medco Energi plans to spend $34.1 million on Sumatra ethanol plant ------------------------------------------------------------------ JAKARTA (Bloomberg): PT Medco Energi International, Indonesia's largest publicly traded oil company, plans to spend $34.1 million to build an ethanol plant in the Southeast Asian nation's Lampung province in southern Sumatra. The plant will have a production capacity of 60,000 kiloliters of ethanol a year, processed from cassava-derived starch and sugarcane molasses, Medco said in a statement on Friday. Medco and local partner PT Trade Bioenergy Indonesia, plans to start the construction in the third quarter of 2006, it said. "The plant will produce industrial-grade ethanol by the end of the third quarter of 2007 with main markets in Singapore and Japan," Medco said. "We expect the plant to eventually be able to produce fuel-grade bio-ethanol." Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest oil consumer, wants to use more gasoline mixed with ethanol, palm oil and other vegetable oils to help cut energy imports. Soaring oil prices and higher domestic demand are draining Indonesia's finances as the government subsidizes fuel for its 238.5 million people. Medco is among 11 companies which secured licenses to build bio- fuel plants to make bio-fuels that stretch fossil fuel supplies when crude oil prices rise. Oil prices reached a record $70.85 a barrel on Aug. 30. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will order that fuels such as gasoline are mixed with 5 percent of bio-diesel or bio-ethanol from early next year, Research and Technology Minister Kusmayanto Kadiman said on Dec. 14. The government will promote the use of bio-diesel, a mixture of diesel and palm oil, to reduce reliance on oil-based fuel as well as to reduce carbonemissions, he said. Medco Energi's unit PT Medco Ethanol Indonesia, owns 85 percent of the ethanol plant joint venture, called PT Medco Ethanol Lampung. Trade Bioenergy holds the rest. The companies are in the process of getting financing from banks, Medco said. (**) ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Help the victims of the Pakistan/India earthquake rebuild their lives. http://us.click.yahoo.com/it0YpD/leGMAA/E2hLAA/BRUplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> *************************************************************************** Berdikusi dg Santun & Elegan, dg Semangat Persahabatan. Menuju Indonesia yg Lebih Baik, in Commonality & Shared Destiny. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia *************************************************************************** __________________________________________________________________________ Mohon Perhatian: 1. Harap tdk. memposting/reply yg menyinggung SARA (kecuali sbg otokritik) 2. Pesan yg akan direply harap dihapus, kecuali yg akan dikomentari. 3. Reading only, http://dear.to/ppi 4. Satu email perhari: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5. No-email/web only: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6. kembali menerima email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ppiindia/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
