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One of the Government’s policy in the sectors of oil and gas are unconventional oil and gas concessions such as methane gas (CBM) coal and shale gas. If it is second to none can be optimized, then Indonesia will get additional gas in the amount that is reasonably passable.

As offered by the site   MINERAL RESOURCES, oil and gas Upstream Business Coaching Director Edi Hermantoro in seminars in LKBN Antara, Tuesday (3/12), put forward, from known seismic results that shale rock is in almost all regions of Indonesia. In the near future, the Government will soon perform mapping areas where shale rock reserves his most potential to be developed into gas shale.

Shale Gas is gas obtained from crushed shale rocks or the formation of gas.

In the u.s., shale gas has been developed since 2000 and in 2004 is expected to generate $ 16 BCF gas. Australia has also been developing shale gas and is expected to begin production in may 2015-2016.

Gas shale Edi explained, if it is economically not very developed in the Earth which is about 300-400 meters below the surface.

“If it’s not too deep, Ingeborg quite a week. Once finalized, Ingeborg. So it will take a lot of the cost, “said Shaikh.

Not much difference with CBM, the process required to transform the gas shale rock took about 5 years. For the initial stage, the Government will conduct a pilot project in the area that is considered to be potential.

Business entities engaged in oil and gas production activities, especially in the oil and gas upstream activities, have the ability to reduce greenhouse gas emissions flare (flare gas fuels) by 30-60% per year in developing environmentally friendly oil and gas industry.

As offered by the site lemigas, Director of engineering and MINERAL RESOURCES and oil and gas Environment Suyartono in his book “the Environmental Safety of oil and gas”, flare gas reduction policy of 30-60% per year is an attempt to achieve zero flare in 2012 in accordance with the Kyoto Protocol in 1997 and has been ratified by Indonesia through Act No. 17 of 2004.

Related to this, the program zero flare up  in collaboration with the World Bank has conducted an inventory of the amount of flare gas fuels (gas flare) and CO2 venting (individual-clusters and possible today) generated by a business entity in the business activities of oil and gas.

“A study that aims to identify the potential for CO2 reduction in flaring activities and enhance national capacity and venting with improvements to the system of collecting and reporting data related to the operation of upstream natural gas in Indonesia,” he explained.

One of the implementation of policies to achieve those goals were minimize waste disposal membrane to the environment by way of doing reindeer to membrane well. This has already started to do in some of the oil and gas, including LNG project.

Flare system is the installation of which must be in every oil and gas industry. The process involves a dangerous gas and flammable gases so as to trigger the crash. Flare system is a protection system of gas comes out of the system process by means of burning gas that comes out before entering the atmosphere.

However, burning of flare system turned out to be one of the causes of global warming so that combustion is to be reduced.

In 2008, the volume of a gas flare Indonesia around 113 MMSCFD. Of that amount, approximately 109 UNIT came from oil and gas upstream activities and the rest of the downstream oil and gas activities. While according to the World Bank, in 2007 Indonesia have burned approximately 215 MMSCF and was eighth in the world 13. The burning of Indonesia, adding to about 12 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere and dispose of more than US $ 400 million each year.

Gas flares can also be utilized to meet energy needs. Head of BPMIGAS r. Priyono some time ago expressed, during the semester 1 2009 BPMIGAS managed to facilitate the signing and selling gas flares burn at some places. Among other things, the Field is given the total volume of the Sukowati BSCF with value by 35.7 per total sales of US $ 71.4 million over 6 years.

In addition, sales of gas flares burn was signed from the field in Papua of 17.5 Matoa BSCF with a total value of sales of US $ 25.9 million over 10 years.