Indonesia’s largest coal producer Bumi Resources and US chemical company Air Products and Chemicals will start developing a new Indonesian coal gasification facility by May.
This will be the second coal gasification facility being developed in Indonesia, the first being a joint venture project between Air Products, state-owned coal producer Bukit Asam and oil firm Pertamina. The $2bn project is expected to consume at least 6mn t/yr of coal to produce 1.8mn t/yr of methanol once operational, Bumi said.
