Jakarta, Oct. 27 -- PT Pertamina Patra Niaga, the commercial and trading subholding of state-owned energy company Pertamina, is expanding Indonesia's sustainable energy supply by converting used cooking oil into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), also known locally as bioavtur.

Pertamina Patra Niaga Vice President Director Taufik Aditiyawarman said the company's SAF project uses household waste oil as feedstock at its Cilacap Green Refinery in Central Java.

The project uses the refinery's thermal distillate hydro-treating (TDHT) unit to process used cooking oil alongside other feedstocks.

"We have reached the commercial production stage at the Cilacap Green Refinery, producing about 11 million liters of co-processed SAF this October," Ta...