Empat Formula Penjualan Gas Bumi Indonesia

MINGGU, 08 MARET 2009

JAKARTA. Pemerintah menerapkan empat formula penjualan gas bumi domestik, yaitu flat, eskalasi, formula terkait dengan harga minyak, serta formula terkait dengan produk dan harga minyak.

Formulasi penjualan harga gas dengan sistem flat (fixed rate) digunakan untuk pembeli dari pembangkit listrik dan industri sebelum 2004 pada saat harga BBM domestik rendah dan untuk meningkatkan pemanfaatan gas dalam negeri. Pada waktu itu penggunaan gas terbatas pada gas flare dan jual beli gas jangka pendek.

Formula penjualan gas eskalasi adalah penjualan gas dengan harga mengikuti peningkatan dan pertumbuhan perekonomian dan peningkatan harga minyak dunia. Formula ini digunakan untuk pembeli dari kelompok pembangkit listrik dan industri.

Formula yang terkait dengan harga minyak umumnya digunakan pembeli pada kelompok bisnis hulu dan hilir minyak serta ekspor.

Sedang penjualan gas dengan formula terkait dengan harga produk dan harga minyak digunakan pembeli industri petrokimia sebagai bahan baku (amonia, pupuk dan methanol).

(ESDM)

Potensi Panas Bumi di Indonesia dan Pemanfaatannya Hingga Awal 2009

SELASA, 10 MARET 2009

JAKARTA. Dalam mendukung Rencana Strategis (Renstra) Departemen Energi dan Sumber Daya Mineral 2010-2014, Badan Geologi sebagai salah satu subsektor DESDM memberikan prioritas pada beberapa program, salah satunya pembangunan sumber daya energi terkait pemanfaatan energi terbarukan panas bumi. Pembangunan sumber daya energi dilakukan melalui penyiapan wilayah kerja untuk mendukung penyediaan listrik 10.000 MWe tahap kedua serta penyelidikan terpadu sumber daya panas bumi semua daerah komersial (vulkanik) secara intensif.

Berdasarkan paparan Kepala Badan Geologi DESDM, hingga awal tahun 2009 telah diketahui terdapat 257 kelompok lokasi panas bumi dengan total potensi sekitar 27 GWe di Indonesia. Dari jumlah tersebut, 203 lokasi (80 %) berasosiasi dengan lingkungan vulkanik dan 54 (20%) berada di lingkungan non vulkanik seperti di sebagian besar P. Sulawesi (kecuali Sulut), Kalimantan Barat, dan di kepala burung Irian Jaya.

Sebagian besar lokasi panas bumi (157 lokasi atau 61,3%) sudah berada pada tingkat survei pendahuluan, 85 lokasi atau 33,2 % berada pada tahap eksplorasi permukaan rinci, 8 lokasi atau 3,2 % berada pada tahap eksplorasi pemboran dan 7 lokasi atau 2,8 % yang telah berproduksi.

Jumlah energi panas bumi yang telah terpasang saat ini mencapai 1042 MWe, sekitar 35% dari cadangan terbukti atau sekitar 3% dari total potensi energi panas bumi di Indonesia. Lapangan yang telah berproduksi yaitu G. Salak (375 MWe), Kamojang (200 MWe), Darajat (255 MWe), Wayang Windu (110 MWe), Dieng (60MWe), Lahendong (40 MWe), dan Sibayak (2 MWe).


(ESDM)

BHP To Sack 6% of Its Work Force

By Stephen Bell

BHP Biliton Ltd. said it will cut around 6% of its global work force, shut an Australian nickel mine and cut coal production as it responds to low commodity prices and the world-wide economic slowdown.

The moves, which follow simlar cutback by BHP’s competitors including former takeover target Rio Tinto PLC, will likely prompt further profit downgrades ahead of BHP’s first-half results next month, analysts said.
The changes will results in a one-time cost to BHP of around $500 million, most of which relates to a second-half charge at the Ravensthorpe nickel operation in Western Australia, said BHP Chief Financial Officer Alex Vanselow.

Describing the move as a “very serious” response to the global downturn, Mr. Vanselow said the cuts include 2,100 jobs at BHP’s Australian nickel unit, most of them from the Revensthorpe closure.

Around 550 jobs would be lost in the U.S., up to 200 at the Olympic dam copper-uranium expansion project in Australia, 2,000 in Chile base metals and 1,100 in metallurgical coal in Australia, he said.

BHP will cut coal production in Australia by 10% to 15%, equivalent to an annual loss of four million to siz million metric tons of metallurgical coal.
The Chilean losses relate to project deferrals, rather than production cutbacks, he added.

Mr. Vanselow said BHP remains confident in Chinas’ llonger-term growth story, while efforst by the Chinese government to stimulate the economy should show results in the medium term.

“Our biggest concern is not China, which alone is 30% of global consumption,” he said, adding that nations in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and other developing countries form “the core of the uncertainty that we are seeing.”

The “risks are to the downside” for BHP profit forecast, said UBS abalyst Glyn Lawcock, given the costs associated with job losses and other one-time items. Piror to the report, UBS had cut its fiscal 2009 earnings estimate for BHP by 11% to $11.8 billion.

The lates moves mean BHP has annouced 43.7 billion in wrute-downs as its Australian nickel business in the space of several months, following an earlier &2.1 billion Ravensthorpe charge in November.—Bill Lindsay and Lyndal McFarland contributed to this article.

Hundreds of Illegal Miners Detained in Lombok

By Panca Nugraha, The Jakarta Post/West Lombok

The West Lombok administration has detained at least 202 people from South Kalimantan, who attempted to work at an illegal gold mine at Batu Mujur, Sekotong district, about 50 kilometers south of Mataram, the capital of West Nusa Tenggara.

Basirun Anwar, the administrations spokesman, said that the 202 people, including rwo women, entered West Lombok on Wednesday evening in rented cars and were detained when they were buying cooking utensils at the market in Sekotong.

"After their data "was registered at the administration office, they were handed over to the provincial social service office to arrange for them to be sent back home," Basirun said.

"They came from several districts in Tanah Laut regency, South Kalimantan. We considered them illegal workers, as they were about to work at a gold mine, which has been closed by the local administration," he said.

The closure of the mine was issued by authorities following a major landslide, which killed six miners several days ago. Despite the incident, an increasing number of people continue to flock to the mine to search of gold. He said that his administration had assigned a joint team to help secure the mine site, consisting of representatives from the Indonesian military, police, the administration police and the Sekotong security office.

After closing the mine, the West Lombok administration urged the West Nusa Tenggara provincial administration to revise Regional Regulation No. 11/2006 on the banningof gold mining, so as to enable the administration to mine the existing gold reserves itself.

Basirun explained that in order to send the miners back to South Kalimantan, the regency administration was coordinating with the West Nusa Tenggara provincial administration and their respective provinces of origin. Several would-be miners admitted they left their hometowns for Lombok upon hearing about the gold prospects.

They traveled at a cost of Rp 1 million (USS90) to Rp 2 million each by boat from Banjarmasin to Surabaya, before reaching Sekotong. Most took loans from relatives or other sources to pay these expenses.

Suryansah, SO, one of the newcomers from Tabang Ulang district in South Kalimantan, said that the accident, which killed six people, still didnt prevent him from coming to Lombok.

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Antam Eyes Six Coal Firms in East Kalimantan

By Aditya Wikrama & Yessar Rosendar

State-owned nickel and gold miner PT Aneka Tambang Tbk, or Antam, is considering buying six coal mining firms in East Kalimantan Province, which the company estimates would cost a total of Rp 2.55 trillion ($224.4 million). Antam said it may be willing to enter operational partnerships with the firms.

“Our team is currently in East Kalimantan, conducting due diligence on those six coal companies,” Hari Widjajanto, Antam’s senior manager for corporate strategic development, said on Thursday.

Despite the steep decline in commodities prices, Antam is determined to invest in the mineral sector this year. “We believe the investments will have high economic value in the next two or three years when we start production, and prices will hopefully be higher,” said Alwinsyah Lubis, Antam’s president director.

Bimo Satriyo, Antam’s corporate secretary, said that the coal mine acquisitions would be paid out of its 2009 capital expenditure budget of Rp 3 trillion, which would be financed from internal cashflow. Antam also hopes to gain majority stakes in 15 mining firms in Papua and Jambi provinces.

The company said that it would also work with the local governments and private firms in Central Kalimantan Province to develop gold, coal and other mineral resources there.

Although rich in minerals, the province lacks the infrastructure required to support full-scale mining operations.

“We have 468 mining concessions, about 80% of which have been explored as of the end of 2008,” said Agustin Teras Narang, governor of the province.
Agustin said the unexplored concessions included sites in Barito Utara and Barito Selatan districts, which had potential coking coal deposits, and in the western part of the province with iron ore and bauxite.

Antam said it would also continue to develop a nickel-laterite site in Buli on Halmahera Island in Maluku Province despite project partner BHP Billiton’s withdrawal due to delays by the government in issuing the contract of work for the mine.

Antam projects lower revenue this year on falling ferro nickel prices and output. About two-thirds of Antam’s revenue comes from production of the mineral. “This year ferro nickel production is estimated to decline by 30 percent to 12,000 tons, while the price is expected to fall to between $11,000 and 12,000 per ton,” Lubis said.

Last year, Antam produced 17,000 tons of ferro nickel, which it sold at an average price of $18,000 per ton, while revenue for the first nine months of 2008 came in at slightly over Rp 12 trillion, compared with Rp 7.5 trillion for full-year 2007.

The company’s profit for the first nine months of 2008 stood at Rp 1.62 trillion, as against Rp 5.13 trillion for all of 2007.
Antam shares closed unchanged Thursday at Rp 1,100.

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