Pertamina to raise production of Pertamax

State-owned PT Pertamina plans to raise the production of its Pertamax gasoline in stages until it reaches 19.99 million kiloliters by 2018, which will come from existing and new plants. “We plan to build two new plants each with a capacity of 300,000 barrels per day,” said Pertamina Director Edi Setianto. The new plants will be located in Balongan, West Java, and in Tuban, East Java. Both are scheduled to start operations in 2018. (January 25, 2012)