BPMigas announced Wednesday that the West Sangatta I block in East Kalimantan is expected to begin its first coal bed methane (CBM) production for electricity in the second quarter of 2011.

Operations manager for the Upstream Oil and Gas Executive Agency, Budi Indianto said the block’s operator, West Sangatta CBM, had finished drilling three wells, and since early January had been working on four more.

“If all goes to plan, from May this year the block will be producing around 1 million metric standard cubic feet per day [mmscfd] of CBM, equivalent to 2.5 megawatts,” Budi said at a workshop on CBM in Bandung, West Java, on Wednesday.

He added that his agency was working with several regional firms to seek buyers for the CBM it produced.

Source: Jakarta Post