JAKARTA POST



 

Two Japanese firms will carry out a demonstration project to store carbon dioxide deep in the ground starting next year in Indonesia as part of efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Electric Power Development, known as J-Power, and consulting company Japan NUS are set to begin the four-year plan at Gundih gas field in Central Java Province with the cooperation of the Indonesian government and state-owned oil company PT Pertamina, according to a recent announcement by the Tokyo-based firms.

The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in May picked the two firms' business proposal as an infrastructure research project aiming to be applied to the so-called Joint Crediting Mechanism, which regards Japan's contribution to greenhouse gas emission cuts by a foreign country as its own emission reductions, they said.