PT. Badak NGL

PT Badak Natural Gas Liquefaction better known as the PT Badak ngl is a company of LNG (Liquid Natural Gas) in Indonesia and in the world. Located in Bontang, East Kalimantan, the company has 8 process train (A - H) is able to produce 22.5 Mtpa LNG (million metric tons of LNG per year). PT Badak ngl is one of the largest foreign contributor to the City and Bontang Indonesia. Have as many as 1800 employees of the contractors and workers from as many as 2600 people Shareholders Pertamina : 55% Vico Indonesia : 20% Japan Indonesia LNG Co. (JILCO) : 15% Total E & P Indonesie : 10% Gas Suppliers * Pertamina * VICO Indonesia * Total E & P Indonesie * Chevron Indonesia History Discovery of natural gas giant Badak LNG project begins when Huffco (now VICO Indonesia), an oil and gas contracting companies on the PSC with Pertamina, to find the giant natural gas reserves in the field Muara Badak, East Kalimantan in February 1972, after finding the giant natural gas reserves in the field similar Arun , Aceh by Exxon Mobil. The establishment and development of the company 26 November 1974, established the company PT Badak ngl with stakeholders is Pertamina, VICO and JILCO. This company be trusted to operate the Badak LNG plant. The company name is taken from the name of the region where finding natural gas reserves are gigantic. Factory construction started on 26 November 1974 and completed 36 months later on 5 July 1977 with the successful dibangunnya first LNG train (train A). Close this first inaugurated on 1 August 1977 and made the first shipment of LNG on 9 August 1977 to Senboku, Japan via ship LNG Aquarius. PT Badak also have 4 lines parallel pipe size 36 "and 42" that serves to send natural gas from the gas fields-fields of materials for LNG and LPG from the previous only have one line pipe measuring 36 "at the beginning of the company's stand. In addition, in the same path that there is one pipe size 42 "owned by the East Kalimantan Fertilizer. For 25 years, the Badak LNG plant in the beginning, only a 2 train, but now have 8 added to the train and the facilities of LPG, along with the finding that natural gas reserves not less large in the vicinity of Muara Badak. If operating on full capacity, Badak LNG factory can produce on average 140,000 tons m3 natural gas per day. Total production of natural gas every year successfully raised 3.3 million tons of LNG per year in 1977 to be 22 million tons of LNG and 1.2 million tons of LPG per year. Natural gas production in the Badak ngl is the largest in the world. The decline in production Since 2001, the production of LNG from Bontang began to decrease. 379 of cargo in 2001 to be 341 cargo in 2005. This causes a decrease in the production of PT Badak no longer able to fulfill its commitment to the buyer. In addition, government policies also reduce the export LNG from the Bontang LNG is diverted due to meet the supply of fertilizers in several factories in the country. LPG production was forced to pause to see the reduced supply of gas to PT Badak, since the year 2006. According to some expert estimates, based on the data availability of natural gas in the beginning of the year 2008, estimated in 2010, PT Badak akan operate only with the 6 train. Year 2011, which operates 4 train, which operates a range of 2012-2014 train 2, 2015-2017, and only operate as many as 1 train.