Indonesia's State oil and gas firm PT Pertamina's original plan to convert gas from Donggi into liquefied natural gas (LNG), could be replaced by plans for a petrochemical project instead. Petrochemicals is gaining preference as a downstream industry as it would be more profitable. Iran is one of the countries interested in helping build the petrochemical complex.
Pertamina produces 225,000 tons of purified terephthalic acid (PTA), and polypropylene, benzene and propylene. Donggi has proven reserves of 2.1 trillion cubic feet of gas (tcf). With Pertamina's plans to continue drilling to find more gas, the reserve level could rise to 3.5 tcf. Pertamina, which partnered up with Petronas to develop the plant, delayed marketing gas from Matindok's Donggi field in May 2003 after test wells showed less gas than estimated. --
13-Oct-05 
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