Batulucin, S Kalimantan (ANTARA News) - Energy and Mineral Resources Mininister Purnomo Yusgiantoro inaugurated an upgraded brown coal (UBC) project in Satui sub-district, Tanah Bumbu district, South Kalimantan on Thursday.<\/p>\n
The UBC factory is a pioneer project and coal upgrading factory applying a technology which could increase the quality of low quality coal so that Indonesia in the future is expected to supply the world with good quality of coal.<\/p>\n
The inauguration of the operation of the UBC project in Satui subdistrict was intended to serve as a pioneer factory in Indonesia, even in the world. If it was able to develop well, it would further be developed into a commercial factory.<\/p>\n
The UBC project has a capacity of processing 1,000 tons of low quality coals into 700 tons of high quality coal per day.<\/p>\n
\"We hope that this pioneer project would have become commercially operational in 2009 so that in 2010 its capacity could be increased five times from the present one,\" the minister said.<\/p>\n
On the occasion, the minister said Indonesia and Australia still constitute the biggest coal producer countries in the Asia and Pacific region.<\/p>\n
The function was also attended by Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Kojiro Shio Jiki, South Kalimtantan Governor Rudy Ariffin and other Tanah Bumbu Police Precinct chief Adjunct Senior Commissioner Irianto.
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