Indonesia sees higher crude oil price boosting bio-content in fuel
People take pictures of a car road test for fuel with 40% palm-based biodiesel blending at a Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources area in Jakarta, Indonesia on Jul 27, 2022. (File photo: Reuters/Bernadette Christina Munthe)
NUSA DUA, Indonesia: The stronger price of crude oil is making a higher mix of bio-content in fuel increasingly more feasible for Indonesia, which currently has a mandatory 30 per cent mix of palm oil in biodiesel, a senior cabinet minister told an industry conference on Thursday (Nov 3).Â
The cost of producing biodiesel is cheaper than fossil diesel fuel at the moment, said Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs.
Indonesia is currently conducting a road test for biodiesel with 40 per cent palm oil content, known as B40.
"The effort to substitute fossil fuel with biodiesel, and green fuel and petrochemical with palm-based oleochemical is a strategy that will make the palm oil industry more feasible to maintain prices," Airlangga said.
This week, an energy ministry official said that the B40 road test is entering the last 6,000km distance of the 50,000km target.
