Global warming is urging a lot of businesses to integrate sustainability in their practices. PT Pertamina Indonesia is one of the companies that realize the importance of sustainability practices in business. The company has recently revealed its plans to shift into a more sustainable business.
Pertamina Indonesia: more focus on biorefinery
As a part of Pertamina’s commitment to becoming green, the company has been experimenting in biomass-energy conversion. Last year, Pertamina went on a series of experimentation to produce D100 Green Diesel. At least 1,000 barrels of pure palm oil was spent daily for the trials.
PT Pertamina’s President Director, Nicke Widyawati seem to be vocally satisfied with the D100 Green Diesel. According to the Jakarta Post, Widyawati marks the D100 Green Diesel as a commitment from Pertamina to realize the Nawacita initiative. First professed by the government, Nawacita initiative intends to optimize domestic natural resources utilization for national energy security, self-sufficiency, and sovereignty.
D100 Green Diesel is not the only biorefinery Pertamina has successfully realized. Previously, the largest oil and gas company in Indonesia finished the mandatory B30 biodiesel program standard. The biodiesel helps the country saves foreign exchange reserves, as well as diesel imports reliance, reduces emission, as well as opening up more employment.
Fuel companies around the world’s efforts on being “green”
Fuel businesses have taken several measures to become much more sustainable. Taking cleaner energy and diversified energy resources as their focus are two of the existing methods. While such a smoother shift to gas may benefit the exploration and production sector, it is also expected to bring strong investments through the low carbon energy business. Several big oil companies, such as BP and Shell, have revealed to commence with this strategy.
Businesses in America are taking the advantage of shale and other available alternative sources. With this method, companies can parallelly focus on short-cycle unconventional resources and selecting high-return conventional projects. Chevron, Exxon Mobil and Conoco Phillips implement this strategy.
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