REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- State-owned gas company PT Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) has begun to channel natural gas in April, to two new industry customers in Karawang, West Java. The two companies are PT Hiruta Kogyo Indonesia that produces automotive spare parts and PT Alexindo that produces aluminum.

"In early April, PT Hiruta Kogyo Indonesia has shifted to PGN natural gas, previously it used CNG (compressed natural gas)," PGN's Corporate Secretary Rachmat Hutama said in a statement here on Monday.

Rachmat said, industry should improve energy efficiency to boost its competitiveness.

Natural gas, he said, is an efficient energy, which is cleaner and safer compare to other fossil fuel. "The shift to natural gas would allow Hiruta to save some 30 percent," he added.

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Rachmat reiterated the company's commitment to expand natural gas utilization among industries.

Previously, PGN has supplied natural gas to some major industries in Karawang, among others PT Surya Energi Parahita, PT Trigunapratama Abadi, PT Chunetsu Indonesia and PT Gemala Kempa Daya.

"Not only that, in the near future, we will start gas-in to other six industries in Karawang," he said.

In 2018, he continued, PGN would develop its natural gas infrastructure to expand its usage for personal consumption.

During 2017, PGN has developed 175 km of gas pipeline which brought the total length of its pipeline to 7,453 km or some 80 percent of national downstream gas pipeline.

It has channeled natural gas to 1,730 customers of manufacture industries and power plants, 1,984 commercial customers (hotel, restaurant, hospital, small and medium scale enterprises), and 199,403 household customers.

The customers are located in North Sumatra, Riau Islands, Riau, South Sumatra, Lampung, Jakarta, West Java, Banten, Central Java, East Java, North Kalimantan, and Papua.

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