CAPITAL: SINGAPORE
MONETARY UNIT: DOLLAR
REFINING CAPACITY: 1,270,000 B/CD
OIL PRODUCTION: NONE
OIL RESERVES: NONE
GAS RESERVES: NONE

First supplies of Indonesian natural gas to Singapore arrived ahead of schedule in late 2000 following completion of a 640-km undersea pipeline connecting Singapore with West Natuna fields.

SembCorp Gas Pty. Ltd., which was buying 325 MMcfd of Natuna gas from Indonesia's Pertamina under a 22-year purchase agreement, had a number of industrial customers on Jurong Island.

Negotiations for a second Singapore-Indonesia gas deal were conducted in 2000 between Singapore Gas, a unit of Singapore Power, and Pertamina. That deal involved supply of 350 MMcfd of gas from Asamera field in Sumatra.

The gas would come from three production-sharing contract areas in Sumatra. Two of the PSCs, Corridor Block and South Jambi B Block, were operated by Gulf Indonesia subsidiaries, while the third, Jabung Block, was operated by Santa Fe Snyder Corp.

The three PSCs would supply 150 MMscfd of gas beginning in 2003 and increasing to a peak rate of 350 MMsfd by 2009 for a contract period of 20 years.

To deliver the gas, a 500-km pipeline was planned from South Sumatra to Singapore via Indonesia's Batam Island.

On Jurong Island, ExxonMobil Chemical was reported in 2000 to have completed construction of a $2 billion petrochemical complex adjacent to its 300,000 b/d refinery and at yearend was preparing for start-up.

Based on naphtha and gas oil feedstock, the complex included an olefins plant with capacity of 800,000 tonnes/ year. Other facilities included a 480,000 tonne/year polyethylene unit, a 275,000 tonne/year polypropylene plant, and a 150,000 tonne/year oxo-alcohol plant.

Construction included a 155-Mw cogeneration plant that was to provide electrical power for the complex itself and the refinery.