The Government of Indonesia, through the Ministry of Environment, has approved the Tangguh Expansion Project Integrated AMDAL environmental and social impact assessment and issued the project an environmental permit. Approval is required for project activities to begin at the Tangguh site.
Tangguh LNG, located in Teluk Bintuni, Papua Barat province, is the third largest liquefied natural gas supply facility in Indonesia and the first fully combined upstream and downstream LNG operation in the country. The current operations comprise two identical LNG trains (Trains 1 and 2) with production capacity of 7.6 Mt/year. Tangguh Expansion Project will build on the established operations with a third LNG processing train (Train 3), rated 3.8 Mt/year, bringing total project capacity to 11.4 Mt/year. The US$12bn Tangguh Expansion Project will deliver significant value to the Indonesian government and will help meet the growing energy demand in Indonesia. As part of the expansion project, BP and its partners will supply 40% of the LNG output from Train 3 (1.5 Mt/year) to Indonesia’s state electricity company PT PLN (Persero) for the Indonesian domestic market. Commissioning is not expected before 2019.
Tangguh is operated by BP as contractor to SKK Migas. BP holds a 37.16% interest in the project. Other Tangguh contract partners are MI Berau (16.30%), CNOOC (13.90%), Nippon Oil (12.23%), KG Berau/KG Wiriagar (10.00%), Indonesia Natural Gas Resources Muturi (7.35%), and Talisman (3.06%).