REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA - The government plans to build 33 more gas stations (SPBGs) at the cost of 2 trillion IDR this year to support a fuel-to-gas conversion program. The gas stations would be built in Jakarta, Banten, West Java and East Java provinces, the ministry`s director general of oil and gas, Evita Legowo said recently.

"With the addition of 33 SPBGs, the number of SPBGs will reach 54 by the end of this year," she said.

The government allocates 2 trillion IDR in funds for the construction of SPBGs. The government hopes a tender for the construction of the new SPBGs could be completed in three months` time and the SPBGs could be built starting October 2012.

Evita said gas producers were ready to supply 23.1 mmscfd of gas to Jakarta and its surrounding areas, 10.2 mmscfd to Surabaya, Gresik and Sidoarjo in East Java, and 2.2 mmscfd to Palembang in South Sumatra.

"The Memorandum of Understanding with gas suppliers has been signed," she said.

She said gas sale purchase agreement with gas suppliers could hopefully be signed at the end of August 2012. "There are several things we still need to solve. We have set ourselves the target of solving the matter at least by the end of August 2012," she said.

The matters included tax, gas price at upstream level, and gas transport cost, she said. The government aims to save 8,000 kiloliters of gas through the fuel-to-gas conversion program this year. 

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