Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The National Energy Council (DEN) revealed that there are still quite large remaining oil reserves left in the reservoir. In fact, the amount in the gadang-gadang reaches 40 billion barrels.
Secretary General of the National Energy Council (DEN) Djoko Siswanto said that his party has several strategies to reduce crude oil imports, mainly through efforts to increase production in the upstream sector.
Some of them are through secondary recovery with use water flood, enhanced oil recovery (EOR), chemicalheat, electricity, bacteria, and vibration in oil wells in Indonesia.
“We still have oil reserves of 40 billion barrels which we have not been able to remove after the discovery of this oil, well that’s the way I mentioned it later,” said Djoko in the Road to CNBC Indonesia Award 2023 Best Energy, Tuesday (31/10/2023 ).
Apart from that, to reduce oil imports, the government is currently also encouraging the use of electric vehicles among the public. Various regulations have been issued to support the creation of an electric vehicle ecosystem in Indonesia.
“Now there are 100 TransJakarta buses using electricity, so did the President in January last year groundbreaking “DME factory to substitute imported LPG and then we have also carried out trials using electric stoves,” said Djoko.
Djoko gave an example based on the results of trials on converting gas stoves to electric stoves carried out in Solo and Denpasar, one family was found to only pay less than IDR 10 thousand for electricity for cooking 4-5 hours a day. The cost for cooking using an electric stove is around IDR 60 per hour.
“Well, we have successfully carried out trials in Bali and Solo, then we will also increase petrol and LPG production by upgrading the refinery in Balikpapan. Hopefully this can be completed,” said Djoko.
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