Indonesian state energy company Pertamina plans to mix more of its gasoline products with ethanol in 2024 in a bid to offer alternative fuels to the public, its chief executive said. The company will mix its 90-octane gasoline, Indonesia’s most widely used fuel product under the brand Pertalite, with 7% ethanol, which will improve the quality of the fuel, Nicke Widyawati told a parliamentary hearing.
Pertamina will also increase the ethanol blend in its other fuel product to 8% from 5%. That fuel, called Pertamax Green 95, is currently only offered at 17 fuel stations in Jakarta and Surabaya, the country’s two biggest cities.
Pertamina will import the ethanol to be blended due to limited domestic production made from sugar molasses. Current domestic output of fuel-grade ethanol is estimated at around 63,000 kiloliters per year. Pertamina did not provide an estimate for how much it will seek to import.
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