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ARUN NGL

PT Arun Natural Gas Liquefaction, better known as PT Arun NGL, is the largest liquefied natural gas producer in Indonesia. In 1990, PT Arun was the largest LNG producer in the world. PT Arun is a subsidiary of Pertamina. Located in Lhokseumawe, North Aceh, Indonesia, the company has 6 processing units, but currently only 2 units are in operation due to the depletion of natural gas reserves there. PT Arun is one of the largest foreign exchange earners for the city of Lhokseumawe and Indonesia. History of Arun NGL Since 1968, Mobil Oil sharing contracts with Pertamina to search for sources of oil in onshore and offshore. In 1969, Mobil Oil began to exert its search in Aceh with a primary focus in North Aceh. Drilling conducted near the village of Arun is the fifteenth time conducted by Mobil Oil. Since the first search in a location which indicate the source of energy to the point of the fourteenth drilling in new fields that are not known earlier, the company has found oil and gas with carbon dioxide content is too high making it difficult to develop. Socony Oil Company, who once operated in Aceh has detected that there is a substantial amount of gas content. On that basis, the search for Mobil Oil, which is coordinated by Pertamina Unit I is concentrated in the village of Arun. Arun Village is a village in the district Syamtalira, North Aceh, whose name was later used as the name of this natural gas company. October 24, 1971, natural gas that contained under the village Arun was found with estimated reserves stood at 17.1 trillion cubic feet. That day is day 73 since the test-led exploration of Bob Graves, chairman of Mobil Oil exploration in Aceh, begins. In 1972 the source of natural gas fields offshore in the North Sumatra Offshore (NSO) was discovered, located in the Straits of Malacca at a distance of approximately 107.6 km from the refinery PT Arun in Blang Lancang. Subsequently in 1998 the project development NSO A is carried out, covering units for gas processing facilities offshore and at PT Arun. This facility

was built to process 450 MMSCFD of natural gas from offshore as additional raw material of natural gas from the Arun field in Lhoksukon that was diminished. March 16, 1974, PT Arun was established as a corporate operator. The company is newly inaugurated by President Soeharto on 19 September 1978 after a successful first condensate exports to Japan (October 14, 1977). Although Aruns gas potential was discovered in 1971. There were several development options during the early Arun period. One proposal suggested sending Aruns LNG to California. A second plan was to avoid investment in liquefaction facilities by constructing a transmission pipeline to feed Singaporean demand instead. A third prospect involved shipments of Arun LNG directly to Japan. The third option was finally selected. The first stage of the liquefaction plant cost about $ 1 billion. Arun sent its first LNG cargo to Japan in October 1978, followed by later supply contracts with South Korea and Taiwan.

Picture 1. PT Arun NGL Train Aruns Organization President Director of PT Arun NGL based in Jakarta, which is currently held by Fauzi Husin. While Vice President based in Lhokseumawe and held by Fuad Bukhari. Vice President in charge of three divisions and three non-divisional level sections, namely: 1. Production Division 2. Field Support Division 3. Development and Services Division

4. Public Relations Section 5. Finance and Accounting Section 6. Public Audit Section Shares of corporate ownership held by Pertamina (55%), Exxon Mobil (30%), and Japan Indonesia LNG Company (abbreviated JILCO; 15%). Todays Development The Arun LNG facility has been an important contributor to the positive balance of Indonesias national natural gas/LNG trade. Arun (Lhokseumawe, Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam) has made noticeable contributions to the national and local economy for more than three decades. Other gas-based industries developed around Arun, including two leading domestic fertilizer plants, AAF (Asean Aceh Fertilizer) and Iskandar Muda. The multiplier effect on the local economy, including revenues to the local government, has been significant, particularly after fiscal rebalancing between central and local governments was implemented in the early 2000s. The sad news is that the huge Arun LNG liquefaction plant (six train capacity with four operational trains currently producing 6.5 million tons per annum/MTPA) will terminate operations in 2014. The information was submitted by President Director of PT Arun NGL, Fauzi Husin now stay in touch with the management of the Veranda of Indonesia in Banda Aceh, on Saturday (27/11). Arun LNG contract will expire in 2014. (After that) although natural gas in some gas fields still remain, but are no longer economically used as LNG, said Fauzi accompanied by the Corporate Secretary of Suparman T, Abdi B Head of Public Relations, and Corporate Social Responsibility Supervisor, Irwandar. According to Fauzi, after 2014, if still there is supply of gas left but could no longer be used as LNG because of the pressure and the lower quality gas. Residual gas could only be used to manufacture fertilizer. Currently, he added, PT Arun operates in the minimum capacity, i.e., only 2 unit trains from the existing 6 unit train, with a total production of only 35 cargos (2 million tons of LNG). Arun even had manufactured 224 cargos (16.5 million tones of LNG), when the production peak in 1994. He predicted that in 2011 PT Arun only able to produce 30 cargo of LNG, in 2012 as many as 24 cargo, in 2013 and 2014 respectively only 20 cargo of LNG. All the rest of the production was to fulfill a contract with Korea and Japan, he said.

Fauzi explained, after the end of the operation of the company in 2014, PT Arun LNG plant still deserve to be receiving terminal (terminal gas). Later on LNG from the outside to be brought to the Arun gas to meet domestic needs, he said. Since the operation of PT Arun NGL 1971, in North Aceh have appeared various gas-based industries, such as PT PIM, AAF, PT Humpuss Aromatic, and PT KKA that use natural gas as an energy source driving the refinery. Arun is currently a joint venture company that only employs about 450 employees from 2600s of employees before. Some employees of PT Arun has been early retirement and work in various overseas companies such as LNG in Abu Dhabi, Qatar, and Yemen. The composition of PT Arun NGL currently covers 55 percent owned by Pertamina, 30 percent owned by Mobil LNG Inc. (Exxon Mobil), and 15 percent owned by Japans association of gas buyers (Japan Indonesia LNG Company/JILCO). Declining production from the current gas fields and expiration of major LNG sales contracts are the main reasons for scaling down the plants operations. Declining gas production has impacted some fertilizer plants, which have faced temporary shut downs because of deficient gas supply after the limited Arun supply was prioritized to feed long term contracts with overseas buyers. Three years does not leave a comfortable time frame to build new infrastructure or prepare for a post industry transformation. Given the potential impacts, pre-2014 planning must comprehensively analyze the impact of Aruns decline on the local economy. The termination of Arun LNG plant operations is not only a shareholder concern (Exxon Mobil, Pertamina and Japanese buyers), but will also impact many other stakeholders. The industrys benefit to the local economy, as well as its large influence on socio-political conditions, will hopefully invite attention from wider stakeholders, including the local and central government and the associated ministries (industry, energy, etc). They all need to share responsibility for Arun post-2014. Indonesians still remember that Acehnese suffered mistreatment in the past, some of which was blamed on the management of the natural gas industry. Post-LNG Arun not only concerns matters of whether the current LNG liquefaction activities should be converted, for instance, to an LNG receiving terminal, but it also has to take political concerns into more serious account, particularly issues of fairness in the distribution of revenues and the accommodation of local interests. The current

LNG liquefaction plant facilities are still in working condition, as are the other gas-based plants nearby (fertilizer, petrochemical, etc.).

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