ARUN LNG PLANT - FIRST TIME IN LNG HISTORY, EXPORT CONVERTED INTO IMPORT TERMINAL

摘要

The Arun LNG plant, located in Lhokseumawe area in the central east of Aceh province northern part of Sumatera Island of Indonesia, had become one of the largest LNG liquefaction plant in the world. It has been operating for almost 34 years and had successfully achieved its most production of 76,000 m~3/day, equal to 224 cargoes in 1994. Arun LNG production has been in declining since early 1995 as the feed gas producing from Block B and NSO facilities (upstream gas field, operating by ExxonMobil) starting its natural decline phase. Such gas supply situation also impacted on the closing down some industries mainly 2 (two) fertilizer plants, and 1 (one) pulp and paper plant becomes a crucial issue locally and even nationally. This paper elaborate the Arun LNG plant to be converted to become an LNG receiving, regasification, and trading hub facilities. The project is designed primarily to utilize the existing LNG storage and loading facilities as receiving and hub terminals by adding new facilities to vaporize LNG send gas to customer. It will be the first LNG export terminal converted into import terminal and expected not only to maintain the sustainability of industrial activities in Aceh province but also positioning itself become the gas hub for domestic as well as LNG & LPG trading hub internationally.