Monitoring Fuel Supply And Fishermen's Gas Stations In NTT, Minister Of Energy And Mineral Resources Reminds To Maintain Work Safety

Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Arifin Tasrif inspects the Fuel Oil Terminal (TBBM) in Ende, (photo: ESDM dock)

JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM), Arifin Tasrif inspected the Fuel Oil Terminal (TBBM) in Ende, East Nusa Tenggara Province. This visit is part of the agenda of the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources in Ende Regency in order to follow the Commemoration of the Birthday of Pancasila with President Joko Widodo on June 1, 2022.

Ende TBBM has a strategic function in ensuring the availability of fuel supply and distribution in the districts of Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara, including Ende, Nagaek, Ngada, and East Manggarai Regencies. One of them is supplying fuel for the H. Hasan Aroboesman Aircraft Filling Depot (DPPU) in Ende Regency.

"I want to ensure that all Pertamina's fuel storage facilities from Sabang to Merauke support the fuel and energy needs of the community to operate properly," said Arifin in an official statement received by VOI, Wednesday, June 1.

During this visit, Arifin also asked Pertamina to ensure that Ende's TBBM operational activities pay attention to the safety of the work environment. Considering the location of TBBM which is close to the sea and has a Jetty Head facility for fuel distribution pipes from ships to storage tanks.

"Make sure there are no (oil) spills, from the start it must be properly supervised and controlled, must be able to preserve the environment and the surrounding sea," said Arifin.

TBBM Ende has the installation of 7 storage tanks, 2 jetty heads/terminal docks for self-interest (TUKS), 4 bay filling sheds, 9 fleets of fuel tank cars. The fuel products at TBBM Ende are Pertamax, Pertalite, Biosolar, Kerosene and Avtur.

For information, Ende's TBBM distributes around 5.6 million liters of fuel per month on average. TBBM Ende gets fuel supplies via tankers from Tenau Fuel Terminal, Maumere Fuel Terminal, and Mangosteen Integrated Terminal.

During this visit, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources was accompanied by the Head of BPH Migas Erika Retnowati, the BPH Migas Committee Iwan Prasetya Adhi, Director of BBM BPH Migas Patuan Alfons and Director of Logistics and Infrastructure of PT Pertamina (Persero) Mulyono.