Unocal starts power plant

Unocal starts power plant

SINGAPORE (AFP): U.S. energy firm Unocal Corp. said here
yesterday that the second of two 55-megawatt power plants started
commercial operations at the company's maiden geothermal energy
development project in Indonesia.

The company's wholly-owned subsidiary Unocal Geothermal of
Indonesian Ltd., under a joint operation contract from state oil
company Pertamina, supplies energy to fuel power plants at the
Gunung Salak geothermal field in West Java, south of Jakarta.

The first 55-megawatt power plant began commercial operations
in July this year, according to a statement issued by Unocal's
representative office in Singapore.

The statement said Unocal was working with Pertamina and PLN,
Indonesia's state utility, to expand power generating capacity of
the field by an additional 220 megawatts.

Unocal, based in Los Angeles, was also conducting an
exploration in the highly prospective Sarulla block in northern
Sumatra under a separate joint operation contract from Pertamina,
the statement said.