goodmorningpapua.com – PT Pertamina Patra Niaga Regional Papua Maluku established a Task Force Team for Christmas and New Year 2023 to control and monitor the smooth distribution of fuel and LPG until 8 January 2023. An executive General Manager of Pertamina Patra Niaga Regional Papua Maluku, I Ketut Permadi Aryakuumara, in Jayapura, Saturday (17/12/2022) said the task force team involved Pertamina Patra Niaga Regional Papua Maluku officers and related agencies including the ESDM Service, Transportation Service, Cooperatives and MSMEs Workforce Office, Police, KSOP, TNI and PT Telkom Indonesia. The goal is to ensure energy availability is met.
“We estimate that the potential for community movement during the Christmas and New Year 2023 holidays will be crowded due to the current situation in the Papua Maluku region starting to improve,” he said.
According to Ketut, people can take advantage of various modes of transportation to visit family or fill their holidays. “So we predict that energy consumption will increase due to people’s mobility ahead of and after the Christmas and New Year celebrations in Papua-Maluku,” he said.
He explained that his party predicts the need for gasoline-type fuels will increase by nine percent, then biodiesel by two percent, and aviation fuel by 18 percent. “The increase also occurred in kerosene 8 percent and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) 9 percent,” he said.
He added that to guarantee the company’s operational processes during the Christmas and New Year 2023 periods, his party has also prepared gas stations with longer operating hours and free medical check-up facilities.