As Indonesia Faces Oil Crisis, Threat Looms Over Transport Energy Demands

Previously, Indonesia had oil reserves up to 27 billion barrels. However, only 3.7 billion barrels are left, due to years of massive production and consumption since 2003.

The data from Upstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Special Task Force (SKKMigas) Public Relations Department Head Elan Biantoro, quoted by Kompas.comon September 5, 2015, also indicated that the oil reserves will last for only around 10 more years.

"Our country previously had up to 27 billion barrels; however, around 22.9 billion barrels have already been extracted. Only 3.7 billion barrels remain,” he said.

Rate of consumption exceeds availability. The oil produced is only half the amount of fuel consumed, SKKMigaspublic relations representative Dian Sulistiawan was quoted saying by Antara on August 30, 2017.

"The national level of fuel consumption has reached 1.6 million barrels per day, meanwhile the production capacity is only 834,000 barrels per day," he said.

According to him, if people's fuel consumption does not decrease, more fuel has to be imported, and it will burden the state’s budget. On the other hand, it is hard to improve the production while energy crisis looms over upstream oil and gas industry.

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