Seduce Contractors Working On Carbon Capture, Bahlil: Better

JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia invites oil and gas (oil and gas) Cooperation Contract Contractors (KKKS), both at home and abroad, to join the carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).

Furthermore, Bahlil conveyed the Government's commitment to providing various facilities for investors, in order to create a more attractive and conducive investment climate for the development of strategic industries in the future. As a concrete step, supporting regulations in the form of Government Regulations (PP) and Regulations of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (Permen) have been completed.

"We have made the rules and I offer them to all of you. Please come in. Faster, better. We will give you a little sweet energy relaxation. But when the boom has just entered, the sweet energy will not be as good as it is now," said Bahlil, quoted on Friday, May 23.

Bahlil said, from 2021 to 2024, the government has issued 30 data utilization permits to 12 contractors to support the implementation of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) and Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) studies in various parts of Indonesia.

The study included 19 strategic locations, including Arun, Corridor, Sakakemang, Betung, Ramba, Asri Basin, ONWJ, Jatibarang, Gundih, Sukowati, Abadi, CSB, Gemah, South Natuna Sea Block B, East Kalimantan, Refinery Unit V Balikpapan, Blue busyia, Donggi Matindok, and Tangguh Field in Bintuni, Papua.

The chairman of the Golkar Party said that Indonesia is a country that has the largest carbon capture potential in Asia Pacific with a potential of 572.77 gigatons for saline aquifers or aquifers with salted water and 4.85 gigatons in the delayed reservoir or aquifer whose water runs out.

"Currently, the world is always thinking now about building industrialization with a green energy and green industry approach. One of them is how to capture the carbon capture, the CO2," he continued.

For information, CCS is a technology used to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from emission sources, then transported and stored in long-term storage areas, such as underground. While CCUS is a development of CCS, which not only stores CO2, but also uses it as a new source.