PT Pertamina Gas Negara Tbk (PGN, ,

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Pertamina Gas Negara; formerly known as PT Perusahaan Gas Negara Tbk, ) is an Indonesian

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transportation and distribution company. The total length of distribution pipelines of the company is 3,187 km that serve around 84 million customers.

History

The Indonesian natural gas industry was initially managed by the Dutch private gas company ''L.J.N Eindhoven & Co.'', which was established in 1859. The company introduced the use of gas in Indonesia, which was at the time made from coal.Bumn Indonesia
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, in August 1945, Japan surrendered to the Allies. This opportunity was used by the youth and electrical workers (through Electricity and Gas Labour/Employee delegation), which together with the chairman of the Central Indonesian National Committee (KNIP) took the initiative to meet President

Sukarno Sukarno (6 June 1901 – 21 June 1970) was an Indonesian statesman, orator, revolutionary, and nationalist who was the first president of Indonesia, serving from 1945 to 1967. Sukarno was the leader of the Indonesian struggle for independenc ...

and propose the take over of the company by the Government of Indonesia. On 27 October 1945, President Sukarno formed ''Jawatan Listrik dan Gas'' (Bureau of Electricity and Gas) under the Ministry of Public Works and Energy with a power generating capacity of 157.5 MW. In 1958, L.J.N. Eindhoven & Co was nationalised and converted into ''PN Gas''. On 1 January 1961, the Bureau of Electricity and Gas became BPU-PLN (''Badan Pimpinan Umum Perusahaan Listrik Negara'', General Governing Agency of the State Electric Company). The agency, which managed the electricity and gas, then dissolved on 1 January 1965. At the same time, two state-owned companies were established:

Perusahaan Listrik Negara PT Perusahaan Listrik Negara (Persero) (, abbreviated as PLN) is an Indonesian State-owned enterprise, government-owned corporation which has a monopoly on electric power distribution in Indonesia and generates the majority of the country's p ...

(PLN) to manage the electricity sector and Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) to manage the natural gas sector. PGN was officially established on 13 May 1965. In 2018, PGN became a subsidiary of

Pertamina PT Pertamina (Persero) is an Indonesian state-owned oil and natural gas corporation, headquartered in Jakarta. It was created in August 1968 by the merger of ''Pertamin'' (established 1961) and ''Permina'' (established in 1957). In 2020, the ...

. PGN has rebranded to become Pertamina Gas Negara on 10 December 2021.

Pipelines

The company owns and operates four transmission pipelines: *Grissik-Duri pipeline – operational since 1998, 536 km length. *Grissik-Singapore pipeline – operational since 2003, 470 km length. *Medan and Jakarta/Bogor pipeline – operational since 2000, 536 km length. *South Sumatera-West Java pipeline – 1,116 km length. In 2011 the company distributed and transmitted at

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* Pertamina Natural gas companies Companies based in Jakarta Energy companies established in 1965 Non-renewable resource companies established in 1965 Indonesian companies established in 1965 2003 initial public offerings Companies in the LQ45 Companies in the IDX 30 {{energy-company-stub