Make Sure The 6 Refineries Continue To Operate During Nataru, KPI Will Produce 7.53 Million Barrel Gasoline

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JAKARTA - PT Refinery Pertamina Internasional (KPI) ensures that the six refineries it manages will continue to operate optimally during the Christmas 2024 and New Year 2025 periods.

"As one of the supply chains for the provision of fuel in Indonesia, KPI will continue to ensure that the refinery can operate optimally so that refinery production is also carried out according to plan," said KPI Corporate Secretary Hermansyah Y Nasroen in a written statement, Friday, December 20.

Welcoming the Nataru period, said Hermansyah, KPI has prepared strategies and steps to ensure that targeted production to KPI can be met.

"Just like in previous years, we have also prepared ourselves. The arrangement has been carried out both in terms of managing crude oil as raw material, reliability of equipment and human resources and ensuring that the products produced from refineries can be channeled to the handover points at Pertamina Patra Niaga," explained Hermansyah.

KPI said Hermansyah had ensured that the availability of raw materials for crude oil to be processed during the Nataru period. Currently, the total security position of crude oil stocks at Pertamina refineries is quite safe, namely 17 days with a processing capacity of more than 1 million barrels per day.

In addition, to ensure the refinery can operate properly, the reliability aspect is very important to maintain.

"We continue to strive to maintain the reliability of the refinery. Some supporting materials that are fast moving, including chemicals, have also been managed properly with very safe stocks," said Hermansyah.

To support the reliability aspect of the refinery, KPI also ensures that human resources in the operational and non-operational fields work optimally.

"We make sure all refinery workers are fit to work, one way to do this is by conducting routine daily checks to ensure that every workforce who will work is ready to work," said Hermansyah.

Meanwhile, KPI continues to produce quality and environmentally friendly fuel products.

In the Nataru period in 14-31 December, KPI will total 7.53 million barrels of Gasoline, 11.40 million barrels of Gasoil, 1.75 million barrels of Avtur, and Marine Fuel Oil Low Sulphur or 1.23 million barrels of environmentally friendly ship fuel.

To make sure everything goes well, said Hermansyah, KPI will also activate the Nataru Task Force (Satgas). This task force is not only in the operating unit, but also at the KPI headquarters and is integrated with Pertamina (Persero).

"This task force is tasked with coordinating and ensuring that the refinery can operate according to the target," said Hermansyah.