ESDM Sets Bioethenol Fuel Specification, Pertamina Ready To Launch Pertamax Green Next Week

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JAKARTA - The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) has stipulated the Decree of the Director General of Oil and Gas Number 252.K/HK.02/DJM/2023 concerning the Standards and Quality (Specification) of Gasoline Oil Fuel (Gasoline) RON 95 with a Bioethenol Mixture of 5 percent (E5) marketed domestically.

In line with the Director-General's Decree, PT Pertamina (Persero) at the end of July will launch a new RON 95 fuel oil (BBM) product with a Bioethenol mixture originating from the cassava cane molases.

Head of the Communication, Public Information Service, and Cooperation Bureau of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Agung Pribadi emphasized that the Decree of the Director General of Oil and Gas stipulates and imposes the standard and quality provisions (specification) of gasoline oil with an octane number (RON) 95 (E0) and 5 percent of bioethenol (E100) bioethanol fuel.

"This Kepdirjen stipulates and imposes the standard and quality provisions of gasoline with RON 95 and a mixture of 5 percent of Bioethenol. The specifications are set in accordance with those listed in the attachment to the Kepdirjen. One of them is regulated by the octane number (RON) of at least 95," Agung told the media quoted on Saturday, July 22.

As stipulated in the Kepdirjen, continued Agung, the standard and quality (specification) of pure gasoline oil (E0) with the octane number (RON) 95 refers to Attachment II of the Decree of the Director General of Oil and Gas No. 110.K/MG.01/DJM/2022 concerning Standards and Quality (Specification) of Gasoline Oil Fuel (Gasoline) RON 91 and RON 95 which are marketed domestically.

Meanwhile, the standard and quality (Specification) of Bioethenol-type Nabati Fuel (E100) refers to the Decree of the Director General of New Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation Number 95.K/EK.05/DJE/2023 concerning Standards and Quality (Specification) of Bioethenol Types of Fuel as Other Fuels Marketed Domestically.

Previously, the Director General of New, Renewable Energy and Energy Conservation (EBTKE) Dadan Kusdiana said the trial of the new fuel product would take effect in July this year. Dadan also said that the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources had been conducting studies since 2008, to ensure that the mixing between fuel and Bioethenol could run.

"We have been around for a long time so that it can run, from 2008 there has been a trial study, and it was running but the economy did not enter, then stopped. Now that the President has asked to run, the Presidential Decree has been signed, for that hopefully, in early July we can carry out (commercialization) for a limited area," concluded Dadan.