Pangkalan Brandan
Pangkalan Brandan (or Pangkalanbrandan) (Pangkalanberandan) is a port town in Langkat Regency, North Sumatra province, Indonesia, forty miles north west of Medan, close to the boundary with Aceh. The area's population is estimated at 21,000.
Dutch Indies", after William III of the Netherlands granted him the license to use the royal title. After Zijlker's sudden death in 1890, Jean Baptiste August Kessler took over management of operations in 1891. A refinery on the Balaban River, connected by a 6-mile pipeline to the wells, was operational in 1892.[1][2]
Pangkalan Brandan was noted to be the first area of Indonesia which supported the development of other areas with its rich oil supply, its well can be traced as the origin of the global oil giant
Royal Dutch Shell
.
There has been a proposal to use waste from the local palm oil industry to generate electricity.[3]
References
- ISBN 9780671799328.
- ^ "History of Shell in Indonesia". Shell. Retrieved 17 July 2020.
- ^ "10.3 MW PALM OIL WASTE TO ENERGY POWER PLANT AT PANGKALAN BRANDAN SUMATRA, INDONESIA" (PDF). Center for Research on Material and Energy. Retrieved 25 Nov 2008.
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