{"id":463710,"date":"2022-01-25T08:45:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=463710"},"modified":"2022-01-25T09:25:39","modified_gmt":"2022-01-25T03:55:39","slug":"indonesia-starts-construction-of-2-3-billion-coal-gasification-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indonesia-starts-construction-of-2-3-billion-coal-gasification-plant\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia starts construction of $2.3 billion coal gasification plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesian President Joko Widodo launched construction of a $2.3 billion coal gasification plant on Monday, in a bid to slash the country&#8217;s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports while optimising its coal resources.<\/p>\n<p>The plant is designed to utilise 6 million tonnes of low rank coal to produce 1.4 tonnes of dimethyl ether (DME) annually, which can reduce Indonesia&#8217;s LPG import by 1 million tonnes per year, according to state coal miner Bukit Asam , which is building the plant in partnership with U.S.firm Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>In 2021, Indonesia consumed 7.95 million tonnes of LPG, 6.4 million tonnes of which were imported, government data showed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indonesian President Joko Widodo launched construction of a $2.3 billion coal gasification plant on Monday, in a bid to slash the country&#8217;s liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) imports while optimising its coal resources. The plant is designed to utilise 6 million tonnes of low rank coal to produce 1.4 tonnes of dimethyl ether (DME) annually, which can reduce Indonesia&#8217;s LPG import by 1 million tonnes per year, according to state coal miner Bukit Asam , which is building the plant in partnership with U.S.firm Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. In 2021, Indonesia consumed 7.95 million tonnes of LPG, 6.4 million tonnes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,170,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-coal-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}