JAKARTA, Nov 15, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – State-owned energy company PT Pertamina committed to support the Indonesian government to achieve net zero emissions (NZE) by 2060 through the decarbonization initiatives program currently implemented by the company.

Senior vice president of strategy and investment at Pertamina Daniel S Purba conveyed this information during an ASEAN Panel Discussion on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on Friday (November 11, 2022).

At the discussion, Purba delivered a presentation on "Decarbonizing the ASEAN Way – Harnessing the Collective Actions of ASEAN Private Sectors Driving Net-Zero: Pertamina's Overarching Plan in Decarbonization".

He explained that Pertamina as a state-owned energy company has the responsibility to provide energy needs in Indonesia – a country with a population of nearly 300 million people with high energy demand.

"At the same time, Indonesia has a strong commitment to achieve net zero emissions by 2060, and Pertamina as a state-owned company fully supports this commitment," Purba said.

"Pertamina has now developed a clear program for efforts to achieve the target of net zero emissions by 2060, even more … if possible, we want to reach the target faster by 2050," he added.

He further added that Pertamina views the energy transition effort as a good opportunity to build a green business.

Such a view, according to him, is part of the main mission to ensure the company remains sustainable and grows in line with efforts to fulfill the commitment to achieving net zero emissions through a detailed decarbonization program in accordance with the company's well-prepared NZE roadmap.

"Pertamina has prepared a decarbonization plan especially for its existing businesses, for instance by reducing gas flaring, using renewable energy in all of our activities both upstream, production sites, shipping transportation and even batteries," Purba pointed out.

In addition, regarding the implementation of Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) aspects, Pertamina is currently at the medium risk level and at the second place for the category of the best ESG score in the oil and gas industry, based on Sustainalytics – an ESG rating agency that has conducted assessment towards the company.

Meanwhile, stakeholders, investors, rating agencies and insurance companies are also interested in finding out and learning about how Pertamina – as an oil and gas company – manages ESG aspects in its efforts to produce sustainable energy.

At the ASEAN Panel Discussion of the COP 27, Purba said that a number of ASEAN countries actually have considerable energy resource potential, such as to produce LNG and gas.

He mentioned ASEAN countries that have such a potential including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Brunei Darussalam.

He also revealed that the low carbon energy transition is a very good practice to be implemented by ASEAN countries in order to reduce the carbon footprint in the region.

Furthermore, still on the effort of reducing carbon footprint, Purba highlighted that Indonesia owns many forests that have the potential to be utilized in the aspect of nature based solutions.

"Therefore, collaboration (among ASEAN countries) can be a brilliant idea because each country has a different position and potential so we hope that the collaboration can establish a carbon market in the ASEAN region," he stated.

"However, this certainly requires concrete steps from all parties so that we can really collaborate together to achieve the net zero emission target," he concluded.

Contact: Brahmantya Satyamurti Poerwadi, Corporate Secretary, PT Pertamina (Persero)
Email: pcc135@pertamina.com, URL: https://www.pertamina.com
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JAKARTA, Nov 15, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Pertamina and ExxonMobil have signed a cooperation agreement for developing carbon capture and storage (CCS) for cutting carbon emissions while supporting economic growth.

"This collective agreement is a solid foundation for Indonesia to achieve Indonesia's net-zero target by 2060 or sooner," Coordinating Minister for Maritime Affairs and Investment Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan said on Monday.

The Indonesian government is working on developing regulations that support carbon capture and storage (CCS) and starting discussions with governments in other regions, he added.

Meanwhile, Pertamina's CEO and president director, Nicke Widyawati, said that the CCS development and decarbonization cooperation is in line with Pertamina's efforts to support the government's program to accelerate the energy transition and achieve the target of reducing emissions by 29 percent by 2030.

"The development of CCS technology is in line with Pertamina's commitment to implementing Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) in all lines of the company's business to encourage business sustainability in the future," she added.

The fastest way to ensure the transition to new renewable energy and decarbonization in Indonesia is through partnerships, she emphasized. This is to answer the three global challenges, namely technology, finance, and human capital, at once.

According to Widyawati, the application of CCS technology is expected to play an important role in reducing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which contribute to global warming, climate change, ocean acidification, and loss of biodiversity.

"The development of CCS technology has a double impact, in addition to reducing emissions while increasing national oil and gas production," she said.

A joint study conducted by Pertamina and ExxonMobil has succeeded in finding the potential for carbon dioxide (CO2) storage of up to 1 billion tons in Pertamina's oil and gas fields.

This large CO2 capacity can permanently store CO2 emissions across Indonesia at the current average for the next 16 years.

In total, Pertamina is working on six CCS/CCUS projects by selecting fields that can be used as CO2 injection sites.

The six potential sites are located in several offshore areas in Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan, and Sulawesi.

The discovery of the great potential of CO2 has become an opportunity for the development of the CCS business and decarbonization efforts in Indonesia.

Contact: Heppy Wulansari, Pjs. Vice President Corporate Communication, PT Pertamina (Persero)
Mobile: +62 811-296-949, Email: heppy@pertamina.com, URL: https://www.pertamina.com
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JAKARTA, Nov 14, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – The UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) 2022 can inspire the global community and all parties to increase contribution to tackling climate change, according to Senior Vice President of Strategy and Investment of Pertamina Daniel Purba.

"Sometimes when we work only focusing on our own sector, we never think about a global point of view. So I'm sure this COP27 will inspire and encourage everyone to think globally in order to accelerate contributions in dealing with climate change through industries that we each work on," Purba said during a discussion organized on the sidelines of COP27, at the Indonesian Pavilion in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt on Friday (November 11) .

Reducing carbon emissions is one of the ways to tackle climate change, Purba added.

Through the COP27 event, he continued, all nations around the world are reminded that there is still a lot of work to do to save planet Earth from the impacts of climate change, and it is not only for the benefit of future generations, but also for the sustainability of the business environment.

"I hope that after the implementation of COP27, everyone will realize that they have to play a role in saving the Earth. And that effort is not just a jargon, but must become a reality, our mindset and lifestyle that encourage us to save our planet," Purba said.

As a concrete step to tackle climate change, Indonesia is committed to achieving net zero emissions (NZE) by 2060, and Pertamina is supporting the realization of that commitment by decarbonizing its existing businesses and developing green businesses.

"Currently Indonesia has committed to achieving net zero emissions by 2060 so that Pertamina, as a state-owned company, supports this commitment and we have also prepared various work programs to achieve this national (NZE) target," he pointed out.

The decarbonization measures taken by the company include encouraging energy efficiency, zero-flare oil and gas activities, as well as carbon capture and utilization.

Apart from that, Pertamina has also developed a number of green business initiatives, including those related to biofuels, renewable energy, batteries and electric vehicles, hydrogen as well as carbon businesses.

"Of course, we also view the energy transition period as a very good opportunity for us to build some green businesses," Purba said.

In addition, Pertamina is also committed to allocating 14 percent of the projected capital expenditure for the 2022-2060 period, which is worth US$70-80 billion, for the development of clean, new and renewable energy.

Contact: Brahmantya Satyamurti Poerwadi, Corporate Secretary, PT Pertamina (Persero)
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JAKARTA, Nov 14, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – The Energy, Sustainability, and Climate Business 20 Task Force (TF ESC-B20) has successfully created the First Green Industrial Area in Southeast Asia.

In a statement released on Saturday, the green industry area acts as an industrial decarbonization effort, which has become an important step not only for the industry but also the cluster.

Chair of the TF ESC-B20 Nicke Widyawati said that supporting decarbonization will accelerate the achievement of net zero emission that is targeted by Indonesia in 2060.

Supporting the development of green industry clusters will also attract more foreign investment in the future, encouraging national economic growth and create jobs.

"Decarbonization of the Industrial Cluster allows us to apply an integrated approach to the transition to net zero," said Nicke Widyawati, Chair of TF ESC-B20 who is also CEO and President Director of Pertamina, in Bali, Friday (11/11).

She continued that one of the important pillars of decarbonization is energy efficiency and circularity, using emerging technologies such as modernization of energy-efficient equipment and components, as well as the adoption of a flaring recovery system.

Other industrial decarbonization initiatives include the application of Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) technology and the implementation of Nature Based Solutions (NBS).

"Indonesia has 400 billion tonnes of CO2 storage potential in our reservoirs for CCUS. We also have the second largest global NBS potential in the world," she added.

She further said that energy use in industry is the highest compared to energy use in buildings and the transportation sectors. Therefore, one of the recommendations of TF ESC-B20 is to increase global cooperation in accelerating the transition to sustainable energy use by reducing carbon intensity in various fields as well as industrial decarbonization.

For that reason, energy efficiency is one of the important pillars of decarbonization that will contribute to the Net Zero Emission target.

Globally, energy efficiency has increased by around 13 percent (2000-2017) and can be 12 percent higher if it is not stopped.

"Over the past 10 years, energy consumption has grown rapidly by 47 percent. According to the latest estimates, the annual average CO2 reduction would need to increase fivefold to reach the Paris Agreement targets. The pace of transition needs to be accelerated," she continued.

New technologies that accelerate industrial and consumer energy consumption are critical to driving efficiency, she reiterated.

Additionally, one of the policy recommendations from TF ESC-B20 is to increase global cooperation in accelerating the transition to sustainable energy use.

"We must further encourage global cooperation that will allow us to accelerate the NZE in line with the G20 theme, Recover Together, Recover Stronger," she concluded.

Contact: Heppy Wulansari, Pjs. Vice President Corporate Communication, PT Pertamina (Persero)
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JAKARTA, Nov 13, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Pertamina is making efforts to decarbonize its business and develop green businesses to support global climate change mitigation and the achievement of Indonesia's 2060 net-zero emissions target.

"We have two main ways for dealing with climate change; first, we have to decarbonize our carbon assets and business," Senior Vice President of Strategy and Investment at Pertamina Daniel S. Purba said.

He made the statement during a discussion at the Indonesian Pavilion on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Friday (November 11, 2022).

To decarbonize its business, Pertamina has started to change its business portfolio by promoting low-carbon energy as well as new and renewable energy at its existing businesses and operations, Purba informed.

"Since it is still economically expensive to introduce the use of renewable energy, the market is not really ready for it. However, for Pertamina, we have started with our own businesses. We can't wait for the market to be ready immediately, but we have started with our own operations," he said.

The company's second climate change mitigation effort involves developing new businesses related to green energy with a number of targets set for biofuels; hydrogen; carbon capture, utilization, and storage; renewable energy; batteries and electric vehicles; and also the carbon business.

Thus, the company's revenue will continue to flow even though the carbon business will be reduced and the company has started to decarbonize its business, Daniel explained.

To fulfill its commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2060, Pertamina will slash its carbon emissions by almost 30 million tons by 2030 and reduce around 30-40 million tons of carbon per year by 2060. For that, the company needs to start taking carbon reduction measures from now onward.

In fact, in the period from 2010 to 2021, Pertamina has succeeded in reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 29.09 percent.

"Those two main ways that we have in our road map for climate change mitigation for years to come are by implementing some well-prepared, detailed, and clear programs and strong initiatives in our business groups. So, we are not only dealing with our current carbon business, but also starting to deal with new and renewable energy businesses," Purba said.

He further said that the asset decarbonization road map is being implemented by Pertamina in each of its business lines, starting from upstream, refineries and petrochemicals, oil, commercial and trade, gas production, integrated marine logistics, and new renewable energy-based power plants.

"There are hundreds of programs behind this road map scheme, and each of our business group entities has committed to applying it," he added.

To ensure that the decarbonization commitment runs in every line of its business, Pertamina has included the commitment target in the key performance indicators of each business entity.

"So, if you don't reach the target, it will have an impact on your income. This is to ensure that all parties work very hard and are committed to achieving the target," Purba said.

Apart from the oil and gas business, Pertamina is also developing the electric vehicle ecosystem in Indonesia by not only producing batteries, but also dealing with all supply chain businesses in the electric vehicle ecosystem.

Contact: Brahmantya Satyamurti Poerwadi, Corporate Secretary, PT Pertamina (Persero)
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JAKARTA, Nov 12, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – Pertamina NRE, Keppel Infrastructure, and Chevron have signed an agreement to explore green hydrogen and green ammonia development projects in Indonesia, primarily in Sumatra.

"The development of green hydrogen and green ammonia has an important role in Indonesia's Net Zero Emissions road map," Pertamina NRE CEO Dannif Danusaputro said on Saturday.

Given the existing potential, Indonesia is expected to play a key role in green hydrogen production in Asia, he added.

We are excited about this strategic collaboration because we believe Keppel and Chevron are leading companies that share the same vision of energy transition as we do," he added.

The collaboration was also welcomed by Keppel Infrastructure CEO Cindy Lim, who expressed her satisfaction over the agreement.

Indonesia is a country with large resources of high renewable and low carbon energy potential, she noted.

Therefore, she said she is pleased to be working with industry leaders, Pertamina and Chevron, to explore the prime use of geothermal energy and other new renewable energy for developing green hydrogen and green ammonia projects.

The cooperation is also meant to support Indonesia's energy transition efforts as well as investment in new renewable energy supply chains in exploration areas, she added.

"This partnership will expand Keppel Infrastructure's geographic footprint of creating and capturing added value from its global commitment to net zero and its energy transition," she said.

Meanwhile, vice president of hydrogen at Chevron New Energies, Austin Knight, expressed his hope to use the shared expertise to study and evaluate low-carbon business opportunities in the region.

"Then, we must work together to find new and innovative ways to continue to produce and deliver cleaner energy for a growing world," he said.

Pertamina, Keppel Infrastructure, and Chevron signed the Joint Study Agreement (JSA) at the Business 20 (B20) Investment Forum, which was held ahead of the B20 Summit in Bali.

B20 is the official dialogue forum of the G20 that represents the global business community.

The JSA has been prepared to explore the feasibility of developing a green hydrogen facility, with a minimum production capacity of 40 thousand tons per year, supported by at least 250-400 MW of geothermal energy in the initial stage.

The hydrogen production facility will have the potential to be scaled up to 80 thousand to 160 thousand tons per year, depending on the availability of geothermal energy and market demand.

Hydrogen and ammonia have been identified as low-carbon fuels that are an important part of the energy transition plan.

Ammonia can also be used to transport hydrogen and has the potential to replace bunker fuel as a low-carbon solution in the global maritime industry.

With the agreement, Indonesia, which has around 40 percent of the world's potential geothermal resources, has the opportunity to utilize geothermal energy as a reliable and stable source of energy to produce green ammonia or green hydrogen.

Contact: Dicky Septriadi, Corporate Secretary, Pertamina NRE
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JAKARTA, Nov 11, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – State-owned energy company PT Pertamina has prepared some strategies to balance climate resilience and energy security, which include the development of nature-based solutions.

Senior Vice President of Research Technology and Innovation at Pertamina Oki Muraza conveyed this information during a discussion at the Indonesian Pavilion on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Wednesday (November 9, 2022).

During the discussion, Muraza said that Pertamina has declared its commitment to achieving net-zero emissions by 2060, and the commitment is in line with the emission reduction policy promoted by the Indonesian government.

As part of the commitment, Pertamina is implementing two main strategies: decarbonizing all of its current businesses and building new businesses based on green and sustainable principles.

The decarbonization measures taken by the company have included pushing energy efficiency, zero-flare oil and gas activities, and carbon capture and utilization.

"Some other measures include increasing green electricity in Indonesia, building the electric vehicle ecosystem, and developing nature-based solutions," Muraza added.

He further explained that the nature-based solution policy itself is not something new to Pertamina. However, synergy is needed between nature-based solutions and the energy sector, and both should go hand-in-hand.

Nature-based solutions involve short- and medium-term policies that can support the acceleration of climate technology implementation, which is a long-term policy.

According to Pertamina, those solutions need to be considered while designing carbon mitigation strategies.

"So, we have to not only be able to capture carbon dioxide with natural plants, but also produce something… including rubber and renewable hydrocarbon products. In the end, we expect to have other products from nature-based solutions," Muraza said.

He highlighted three pillars that need to be considered in the development of nature-based solutions for realizing business resilience amid the challenges posed by climate change. The three pillars are community involvement, biodiversity and conservation, and sustainable economy.

In line with these, some vegetations that have potential as nature-based solutions, such as Calophyllum inophyllum and Pongamia pinnata, have been developed since they are beneficial for biofuel development.

In addition, the company believes that the development of the mangrove ecosystem can also be a nature-based solution because it could help absorb 264 tons of CO2 per hectare.

"We have conducted several studies with universities and government institutions on how to promote crops that can provide raw material stocks for green refineries," Muraza said.

He also outlined several initiatives, for instance, capturing methane gas, which can be used for power generation and other purposes, for example, as compressed natural gas.

In addition, the energy company is also developing other initiatives, including processing liquid waste into biomethane and solid biomass waste into ethanol.

Some more initiatives undertaken by Pertamina are the establishment of Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) centers on the islands of Java, Sumatra, and Kalimantan as well as the development of geothermal utilization in Indonesia.

Contact: Brahmantya Satyamurti Poerwadi, Corporate Secretary, PT Pertamina (Persero)
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JAKARTA, Nov 10, 2022 – (ACN Newswire) – State-owned energy company PT Pertamina is seeking to become a world-class player in green electricity generation based on geothermal energy by pursuing a number of technological innovations to increase geothermal utilization.

"We aim to become a world-class player in the geothermal sector. There is an opportunity for that … since, so far, the geothermal potential utilized is still less than 10 percent of the total owned by Indonesia," said Oki Muraza, senior vice president of research technology and innovation at Pertamina.

He made the remarks during a discussion at the Indonesian Pavilion on the sidelines of COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, on Tuesday (November 8, 2022).

Indonesia has nearly 24 gigawatts (GW) of geothermal potential, but less than 10 percent of it has been utilized, he noted. Therefore, Pertamina sees a great opportunity to further increase the capacity of geothermal utilization in the country to generate green electricity, he added.

Efforts to increase geothermal-based electricity capacity are aimed at supporting Indonesia's target of achieving net-zero emissions by 2060 by increasing the use of renewable energy in the proportion of national electrical energy sources, he said.

For that reason, Pertamina has conducted a lot of research on the development of technological innovations for geothermal utilization, which have covered the fields of exploration, development, production-operation, and digitization.

The state-owned energy company is currently developing better technology in the field of exploration, undertaking a comprehensive study of geoscience, and developing new methods that can be applied in the geothermal industry.

"This is something that we have been doing for years so that we technologically master it, starting from exploration, development, production, drilling, and so on," Muraza said.

Moreover, Pertamina will increase its geothermal capacity, which was recorded at 672 megawatts (MW) in 2020, to 1,128 MW by 2026.

The company is striving to achieve operational excellence in the upstream sector, integrate the development in new areas, and expand the value chain of products from geothermal energy, such as green energy products in the form of green methanol, green hydrogen, nano-silica, green liquid carbon dioxide, and carbon credits.

In addition, Pertamina is also supporting the development of green industrial clusters in the country.

"We hope to accelerate the development of new areas that can be used not only for electricity, but we are also starting to think about possible locations that can be developed for green hydrogen," Muraza informed.

He added that Pertamina is offering cooperation opportunities to players in the field of geothermal and energy efficiency in Indonesia for implementing technological solutions – developed by the company to build more geothermal power plants and other geothermal products – and optimizing the utilization of geothermal potential in the country.

Contact: Brahmantya Satyamurti Poerwadi, Corporate Secretary, PT Pertamina (Persero)
Email: pcc135@pertamina.com, URL: https://www.pertamina.com
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