Indonesia struggles to reverse upstream fortunes
Slow progress at flagship LNG projects and a lack of foreign interest in oil prospects are hampering the country’s production goals
Indonesia’s upstream has seen mostly negative news this year, with the flagship Abadi LNG development remaining stalled and new oil and gas capacity additions projected to fall short of government targets. But expansion works at Tangguh LNG have resumed, following what BP CEO Bernard Looney termed “severe impacts from Covid”. The addition of a third, 3.8mn t/yr train at Tangguh project has faced repeated delays. Looney told a recent earnings call that “we hope… to start up by the end of next year, but a lot depends on how Covid evolves”. The third train will boost the facility’s overall capacity to 11.4mn t/yr. 3.8mn t/yr – Tangguh Train 3 capacity The existing two trains are largely
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