Pertamina: Crude Oil May Be Developed Into Avtur Materials

JAKARTA - PT Pertamina (Persero) revealed that used cooking oil or crude oil allows it to be developed into aircraft fuel or avtur.

"Indeed, the most ideal thing is because if this bioavtur is intended to go abroad, then we must comply with Carbon Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for International Aviation (Corsia), which unfortunately at this time if the source is from palm oil, we are still not comply, even though that's the most. The next thing is probably the most broken oil," said SVP Business Development Pertamina Wisnu Medan Santoso in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, September 10.

Wisnu said the development of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) or bioavtur is still in the discussion stage.

Pertamina itself is currently reviewing and exploring a number of options, including how to collect crude oil.

"Not yet, this is just a discussion with friends because we are exploring options, considering we have gas stations, there are quite a lot of agents throughout Indonesia. We are discussing how to destroy them to become collection places," he said.

He said that this was still in the discussion stage and not yet firm.

"Not yet, especially not yet firm. We are just exploring, just building. But without enough feedstock, it is a bit difficult to develop the project," he said.

However, Wisnu is quite sure that in terms of technology Pertamina is ready regarding the development of SAF, one of which allows crude oil to be developed into bioavtur.

"Actually, in terms of technology, we are ready. Our research friends are even quite sure that technically the catalyst is not inferior to other parties and so on. It is purely just a matter of feedstock. If we get continuity feedstock, it is quite convincing, I think we are ready," he said.

For information, the Head of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) Laksana Tri Handoko said that Indonesia has great potential to make waste run out of oil as fuel for the type of avtur considering the potential for sources to fall to one million liters per year.

The mission to process used cooking oil into aircraft fuel depends on the price of aviation fuel in the market.

According to Handoko, if the price of the avtur is high, then the waste of jelantah oil can become a promising commodity.