Invite Private Gas Stations To Buy Fuel From Pertamina, Director General Of Oil And Gas ESDM: No Issue With Specifications

Director General of Oil and Gas (Migas) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Laode Sulaiman. (Photo: Maria Trisnawati/VOI)

JAKARTA - Director General of Oil and Gas (Migas) of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Laode Sulaiman ensured that Pertamina's fuel oil (BBM) was in accordance with the specifications set by the Directorate General of Oil and Gas.

Thus, Laode emphasized that Pertamina's fuel could be purchased by private gas stations such as Shell, BP-AKR, which recently experienced a fuel shortage.

Laode said, actually the fuel specifications have been regulated through the Decree of the Director General of Oil and Gas, with details of RON 90 regulated by the decision of the Director General of Oil and Gas 0486K/10/DJM.S2017, while the RON 92 is regulated in the decision of the Director General of Oil and Gas number 110.K/MG.01/DJM2022.

Meanwhile, RON 95 is regulated by the decision of the Director General of Oil and Gas number 110.K/MG.01/DJM2022, and RON 95 is regulated in the decision of the Director General of Oil and Gas number 0177K/10/DJM2018.

"It has been regulated, there should be no issues or no issues with specifications," said Laode to the media crew at the Directorate General of Oil and Gas Building, Tuesday, September 9.

Laode continued, the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources has also asked the manager of private gas stations to synchronize volume data with Pertamina.

Thus Laode emphasized that there were no additional imports of fuel oil (BBM) for private gas station managers.

Laode reasoned that the government had provided additional fuel imports for private gas station managers of 10 percent of last year's imports.

Thus, he asked private gas stations to take advantage of the excess volume to distribute their fuel products.

"And it is hoped that private business entities can take advantage of this excess volume to distribute their gasoline fuel, gasoline," he said.

Terkait kekosongan ini, lanjut Laode, dikarenakan adanya perubahan dinamika pasar di mana banyak masyarakat melakukan shifting dari sebelumnya mengonsumsi BBM subsidi menjadi nonsubsidi.

Regarding this vacancy, continued Laode, it was due to changes in market dynamics where many people shifted from previously consuming subsidized fuel to non-subsidized fuel.

"Actually, this is just the dynamics of consumption, where there were previously many RON 90 (Pertalite) users, shifting (moving) to other RONs," said Laode.