Indonesia’s state oil firm, Pertamina, said there were no problems with its 125,000 barrels per day (bpd) Balongan refinery, in a departure from an executive’s comments recently.

Pertamina marketing director Ari Soemarno had said last week the firm planned to import an additional 500,000 barrels of gasoline and diesel oil in January due to problems at Balongan in West Java.
“In fact, the Balongan refinery has no problems. The refinery is running around its capacity at the moment,” Pertamina processing director Suroso Atmomartoyo said.
Separately, Pertamina marketing division chief, Achmad Faisal, said the company would make imports when needed.
“Our refineries supply only some 70 per cent for domestic consumption and the rest is imported. We will get imports any time we need,” Faisal added.