The company had earlier predicted that subsidized fuel consumption this year would reach 40.5 million kiloliters.Jakarta (ANTARA News) - State-owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina has asked for two million more kiloliters of subsidized fuel oils in order to overcome shortages that have occurred in the field lately, a Pertamina spokesman said.
Pertamina spokesman M Harun said here on Thursday the company had earlier predicted that subsidized fuel consumption this year would reach 40.5 million kiloliters.
The two million kiloliters are higher than the amount set in the state budget for 2011 at 38.6 million kiloliters. "Our estimate is that consumption will reach 40.5 million kiloliters until the end of the years," he said.
According to Harun, his side has informed the Down Stream Oil Regulating Agency (BPH Migas) about its estimate on the required subsidized fuel addition.
Based on the procedures the BPH Migas would proposed the required amount of additional subsidized quota to the ministry of energy and mineral resources (ESDM) before it was discussed inter-departmentally and submitted to the House of Representatives (DPR) in the 2011 revised state budget deliberations.
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