JAKARTA: Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) is preparing its 34,267 km infrastructure network to support biomethane transmission for its renewable gas business.
The government’s plan to increase biomethane use draws on infrastructure built over decades for natural gas, enabling customers to switch with minimal modifications.
Mirza Mahendra, PGN’s director of strategy and business development, said the state-owned gas distributor possessed the necessary infrastructure assets and extensive market connectivity to support the development of renewable energy ventures.
To date, PGN has built an infrastructure network of gas pipelines, oil pipelines and urban gas distribution lines spanning more than 34,000 km.
“We believe this infrastructure can also support the transition towards lower carbon emissions and renewable energy,” Mirza said during his presentation at the COP31 forum in Antalya, Turkiye, broadcast live on Tuesday.
According to PGN’s presentation, its infrastructure network consists of 13,987 km of gas pipelines, 605 km of oil pipelines and 19,675 km of urban gas distribution networks.
Mirza said PGN intended to continue strengthening its core gas business while simultaneously exploring new commercial opportunities, such as biomethane, hydrogen and ammonia, as well as technologies like carbon capture and storage and carbon capture, utilisation and storage.
Among these opportunities, biomethane has emerged as a key focus for PGN. The development of this energy source is seen as a way to address three of Indonesia’s priorities: waste management, energy security and decarbonisation.
Mirza went on to say that Indonesia possessed significant raw materials supply potential from the agricultural sector and organic waste streams that could be converted into renewable energy.
These include palm oil mill effluent (Pome), rice straw, sugarcane residue and urban organic waste. Pome is a liquid waste product from palm oil mills. — The Jakarta Post/ANN
