This article is about the oil industry in Just Cause 2.

For the oil company in Just Cause (1), see: EL gas.

Contents 1 Description 2 Natural Gas 3 Bio Fuel 4 Interests 5 History 6 Oil and gas fields 7 Incomplete list of facilities 7.1 Offshore Rigs 7.2 Gas Lines 7.3 Emas Hitam Oil Refinery 7.4 Pulau Berapi 7.5 Gas Stations 7.6 Power Stations 7.7 Oil Storage Depots 7.8 Oil-fueled smelter 7.9 Facilities with unknown purpose 7.10 Bio Gas Facility 7.11 Ports 8 See also 9 Gallery

DescriptionEdit

Some of the content in the page is based on speculations, but many of these speculations are based on in-game evidence. The Panauan oil company is owned by the government.

As revealed in the last Agency mission, A Just Cause, Panau has the largest oil reserve in the world (Selatan Oil and Gas Fields) and all of it is controlled by the government. At the end of the mission, the oil field is supposedly contaminated by a nuclear explosion. Of course this is ridiculous, as the radiation from a nuclear explosion would be harmless against the undersea oil field. The waters above the oil field are also very deep and that makes the scenario even more ridiculous.

Another large oil field (Panau Barat Oil and Gas Fields) was also found for some years ago west of the Lautan Lama Desert. It is from here that most of Panau's oil comes from. Most of the gas rigs also get minor amounts of oil with the natural gas, for example the Selatan rig. The selatan rig is located near to the large oil field there, so that is not so strange at all.

The special rig at Gunung Tasik once produced oil and gas, but the reservoir was very small and went empty after some years. The rig was then rebuilt to a research facility.

Nothing is known about the quality of Panauan-made fuel, but it's definitely not the best in the world. There's a newspaper in the ending cut-scene of the Just Cause (1) mission "Good Cop, Bad Cop". One of the articles says that "Scientists all agree: EL gas (the official fuel company of San Esperito) is the best gas in the world!"

Though, as revealed by Razak Razman during the mission "Oil for Blood", Panau imports much oil from Brunei, evidencing that the production inside the country, at least 80% from Pelantar Minyak Gerudi Besar, is too small to meet the request in Panau. Nothing is known about the daily capacity at the rig, but since the daily production at a rig of this size is about 20'000 cubic meters of oil, it would be something like that. A speculation would be that Panau imports about 40% of it's oil. If the Selatan Oil Field ever was exploited, then they could export a lot of oil. It's still very much smaller amounts than before.

The government still earns a big profit selling it's natural gas to other countries and sell it's own production to the inhabitants in Panau.

All properties of the company is:

• 10 Gas Rigs.
• 1 Oil Rig.
• 2 Oil Refineries.
• 1 Oil storage depot.
• 6 Oil harbors.
• 30 Gas Holders.
• A Pipeline network going all over Panau.
• Most of the Fuel Silos.
• +200 Gas Stations.
• All rights to the Panauan fuel market.
• 61 Oil Cisterns.

Natural GasEdit

Even if the company produces quite significant amounts of oil, by far the most significant product is Natural Gas, with 10 rigs and the majority of the Pipelines used for the production and transportation of natural gas. The gas is mostly used as a thermal energy source at most types of houses and building, or at thermal water stations. Using natural gas as power source is better than oil and coal, as it produces twice the energy compared to the same amount of oil and coal. It gives almost no air pollution either such as sulphur dioxide or particles.

Much of the gas is probably consumed inside the country, but some of it may be transported in a undersea pipeline to Malaysia or Indonesia, as these countries are not so far away. One likely suspect is that there is a lot of Gas Tanks exported in containers to other countries. Some of the gas is packaged in that tanks in Panau, and they are sold at Gas Stations or other such locations. They can also be stored at Military Facilities.

Some of the gas is also stored in large containers known as Gas Holders.

Nothing is known about the capacity of the gas rigs, but since many gas rigs of this size haves a daily production of around 60 million cubic meters, then the Panauan rigs could produce at least so much. The total production would then be around 600 million cubic meters per day.

Bio FuelEdit

The company also has a Bio Fuel program, to produce bio fuel to sell at Gas Stations and maybe for export. They are currently producing Bio Gas at some concrete towers in Pelaut Archipelago, and Ethanol produced at 15 Bio Fuel Shafts.

The Bio Fuel Shafts can for example be found in Selatan Archipelago, producing Ethanol from plants or trees in the rain forest in the area.

InterestsEdit

Apart from the government, many other have a less or more interest for the oil and gas reserves.

The factions are usually not interested to attack the oil and gas industry. All of the factions need for example fuel for their vehicles.

Razak "The Razor" Razman wants to control the oil industry in Panau to get the Roaches a lot of incomes. They eventually do, after taking over the Emas Hitam Oil Refinery, and then they gets at least the half of the incomes. They do actually not want to destroy the refinery.

Bolo Santosi of the Reapers is "in love with money", according to Sloth Demon, and is very interested in the oil and gas reserves. If she was the president of Panau, she would have sold much of the oil and get very rich out of it. Ironically, she wants Rico to destroy one of eleven offshore rigs and a Bio Fuel Shaft in two separate missions, though her reasons were mostly for destabilizing the regime.

The Ular Boys and Sri Irawan does not actually care so much about the oil and gas industry. They are only stealing fuel from depots and Pipelines.

Apart from the factions, the three superpowers; Japan, China and Russia is very interested in the oil and gas reserves. They believe they can support the factions until a regime-shift, and then take much of the incomes from the industry. Rico is able to stop their each representative in the mission "Three Kings".

HistoryEdit

Since the early of the 20th century, it was known that minor pockets of natural gas existed under the seabeds in Panau. but with the technology of that time, it wouldn't have been viable to extract it. New readings have been done under the last years of the 20th century, and the gas pockets was quite bigger. Panau have always been forced to import oil and gas before the time of Pandak Panay.

In the early time of the 20th century, the Panauan system of paved roads was not yet built, and the dirt roads was pretty bad to drive on. So the request for oil was quite low, with except for kerosene. When Panau City soon started to expand and upgrade it's road network, the ruling colonial power insisted on building two new ports for oil import in Pelaut Archipelago, Pulau Kait and Kuala Cengkih, and also built Panau's first oil refinery, Emas Hitam Oil Refinery, in a small valley on one of the north-east islands in the district. It would be cheaper to import raw oil instead of buying the refined products from other countries.

It continued in the same way under the time of Papa Panay. At least one new port was built for oil import to meet the rising request of petroleum products. A proposal was left to the government to build a new oil refinery, but instead the government upgraded the old refinery and increased capacity of it. The seabed readings of the gas pockets still appeared small, so the pockets were ignored.

Pandak "Baby" Panay saw something with the gas pockets his new regime erected a total of 11 Offshore Rigs in the Panauan waters and one lone rig in the mountains at Gunung Tasik. A new refinery was built at Pulau Berapi, and the military was enforced. Geologists did readings on the seabed outside Kem Pulau Kerbau, and found a huge oil field. It was a secret for a time but Panay planned to exploit it. And then that nuclear missile...

Oil and gas fieldsEdit

• Selatan Oil and Gas Fields.
• Panau Barat Oil and Gas Fields.
• Panau Utara Gas Fields.
• Panau Timur Gas Fields .
• Telok Panau Gas Field .

Incomplete list of facilitiesEdit

The heart of the Panauan oil industry is located on the north-east islands of Pelaut Archipelago.

Offshore RigsEdit

Main article: Offshore Gas Rigs in Panau.

The Panauan Navy controls all of Panau's offshore rigs, but civilians are allowed to work on them. All but one of them are for natural gas. The single oil rig is Pelantar Minyak Gerudi Besar.

Gas LinesEdit

Main article: Pipelines.

The Panau Military has set up a system of pipelines all over the islands, that are run by civilians. Some Military Bases are centered over the pipe system. There are several pipe outposts around the country, as well as Fuel Tanks for storage. Most of the pipes are for natural gas, but some are for oil. These links the oil from the Emas Hitam Oil Refinery to the Gas Stations or other facilities.

Emas Hitam Oil RefineryEdit

Main article: Emas Hitam Oil Refinery.

Emas Hitam Oil Refinery is Panau's central refinery. After the oil was pumped out of the ground and seabed the oil is shipped to this Stronghold. Here it's refined into gasoline and pumped to gas stations and/or shipping ports.

Unlike the other refinery, half of the oil refined here is imported from Brunei.

Pulau BerapiEdit

Main article: Pulau Berapi

Pulau Berapi is the second oil refinery in Panau and is also a large shipping port. Here the oil is refined in mostly diesel, but also some other products like Jet Fuel, Asphalts and plastic components.

Gas StationsEdit

Panau Gas is the government run company that sells all of Panau's oil. Their gas stations can be found in cities, villages, docks and on major roads. Small gas stations have 2 pumps and a small store. Large gas stations have 4 pumps and a small store. While dock stations have 2 pumps and a tiny store. Gas Depots are usually found in ports, airports and were ever else large vehicles need gas.

Power StationsEdit

There is at least two fossil fuel power stations in Panau. For more info about the Panauan power grid see: Electric Power in Panau.

• Loji Bahan Bakar Fossil - Fuel Oil, operational
• Kem Pekan Selamat - Natural gas, under construction

Oil Storage DepotsEdit

Most of the oil facilities storages a small amount of oil, but some facilities has a purpose only being a Storage Depot.

• Pekan Hutan Buluh.

Oil-fueled smelterEdit

There is one iron ore smelter in Pelaut Archipelago, fueled by oil. It is the only known smelter in Panau.

• Bandar Lombong Besi.

Facilities with unknown purposeEdit

There is several facilities in Pelaut Archipelago that handles oil with unknown purpose.

• Kampung Perigi Hitam.
• Kampung Langit Berasap.

Bio Gas FacilityEdit

There's one facility that is only a Bio Gas producing facility.

• Pekan Cahaya Matahari

PortsEdit

As stated above in one of the sections, Panau imports much oil from Brunei due to the national production being too small to meet the request. Note that not all ports are for transporting oil, despite the amount of Fuel Depots and Fuel Silos. That's because all ports store large amounts of fuel for the ships.

• Pulau Berapi Port - Primary.
• Pulau Kait - Primary.
• Kuala Cengkih - Primary.
• Pelabuhan Saudagar - Primary.
• Port Kepulauan Pelaut - Secondary.
• Kampung Padang Luas - Secondary.

See alsoEdit

• EL gas, the oil company in San Esperito.

GalleryEdit