Adianto P. Simamora, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Thu, 06/17/2010 9:59 PM
Upstream oil and gas regulator BPMigas warned Thursday that a number of CEOs and presidents of oil and gas firms were getting ready to leave Indonesia on fears of sanctions from the environmental law.
The BPMigas requested a minimum of two-year delay to the enforcement of the law to give times for the companies to adapt with the technology needed to lower temperature of its wastewater.
“The CEOs and presidents of oil companies are very scary of criminal penalty as stated in environmental law,” Sinang Bulawan, head of operation unit at the BPMigas told a seminar.
Without elaborating, Sinang said that 17 companies had stated their difficulties to comply with requirement of the temperature of wastewater.
Article 100 of the 2009 Environment Law stipulates anyone violating standards of waste water, emissions and noise levels will face a maximum of three years imprisonment and/or up to Rp 3 billion in fines.
The Environment Ministry previously granted extra times to 7 oil and gas companies to install technology to lower its wastewater level.
The 2007 ministerial decree requires temperature of the wastewater pumped from oil rigs should be 40 Celsius degree from the previous of 45 Celsius point.
The decree took into effect since 2007 but the complaints boomed in 2010 following the implementation of environmental law.
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