Aerial view of process units and tanks at a plant

From reformer to jetty, every figure ready for audit.

We prepare the data European importers, PROPER and inspectors ask for across your fertiliser, petrochemical or oleochemical plant, and bring it together on Ailesh+.

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Importers, inspectors and investors read the same meters.

Reformer data, CEMS readings and the hazardous-waste balance get reused by every obligation. Record them once, properly, and compliance costs fall while market access holds.

Risk

Since 1 January 2026, European importers carry the cost of embedded emissions in ammonia, urea and hydrogen, and the figure comes from the plant of origin. At home, fertilisers are among the first subsectors being prepared for mandatory emissions trading.

€75.36 per tonne of CO₂, the CBAM certificate price set for the first quarter of 2026.

According to the European Commission via Legal 500, 2026; Fortune Indonesia, 2025

Opportunity

Gas is an ammonia plant's largest cost and largest emission source. The gap between the global average and the best technology is still wide, and every GJ saved brings both down.

41 vs 28 GJ per tonne of ammonia, global average against the best gas technology.

According to the IEA, 2021

Priority

Meter every unit before commercial production, tag LDAR components as the pipes go in, and log spent catalyst from start-up. That data fills importer requests, PROPER documents and PSPK reports at once.

EU CBAM
definitive period since 1 Jan 2026; first declaration due 30 Sep 2027
Ammonia, urea, nitrogen fertilisers and hydrogen are covered, and hydrogen has no 50-tonne threshold.
According to the European Commission; CBAM Guide, 2026
Fertiliser emission standards (Environment and Forestry Ministry Regulation P.17/2019)
in force since 16 Apr 2019
CEMS is mandatory at the prilling tower, nitric and sulphuric acid units and boilers of 25 MW and above, connected to SISPEK, the national online emissions system.
According to the BPK legal database
Carbon pricing (Presidential Regulation 110/2025; Environment Ministry Regulation 7/2026)
in force 10 Oct 2025, implementing rule June 2026
Businesses submit an annual emissions inventory by March.
According to the BPK legal database; Veritask, 2026

From coastal site to new train, one chain of data.

Intensity per tonne of ammonia or ethylene is locked in at the design drawings, then proven by the meters installed at commissioning. Pick your phase to see what needs to be ready.

Phase 1: Emissions intensity is settled before the first pile goes in.

Ammonia plants and crackers sit on the coast near gas and a jetty, so the sea and fishing villages become lifelong reference points. The reformer technology chosen here sets the tonnes of CO₂ per tonne of product that importers will later read.

What needs to be ready

- 1.1
  1.1 Technology and carbon exposure
  Calculate intensity per tonne for each technology option, then test it against CBAM certificate prices and the emissions cap being prepared for industry.
  1.8 vs 0.1 t CO₂ per tonne of ammonia, best gas reformer against a reformer with CCS
  According to the IEA, 2021
  - Decarbonisation strategy
  - Carbon+
- 1.2
  1.2 Marine, coastal and village baseline
  Survey seawater, mangroves, reefs and endemic species around the planned outfall and jetty, then map fishing villages before any dredging.
  - Biodiversity
  - Biodiv+
- 1.3
  1.3 AMDAL and hazard zones
  Ammonia, petrochemical and chlor-alkali plants need a full environmental impact assessment (AMDAL), and the major-hazard study sets how far ammonia tanks sit from homes.
  According to Environment and Forestry Ministry Regulation 4/2021
  - Environmental permits
  - PROPER+

Phase 2: CEMS, flare and waste store are fixed on the drawings.

The AMDAL and the technical approvals for emissions, wastewater and hazardous waste are filed in parallel and cite the same P&IDs. Energy, water and fugitive emissions are cheapest to cut while columns and compressors are still drawings.

What needs to be ready

- 2.1
  2.1 AMDAL and technical approvals in parallel
  Write the environmental management and monitoring plan (RKL-RPL) unit by unit, from reformer to jetty, and include the receiving water's assimilative capacity in the wastewater study.
  the Environmental Approval is issued within 93 working days in a normal case
  According to Government Regulation 28/2025 and Environment and Forestry Ministry Regulation 5/2021
  - Environmental permits
  - PROPER+
- 2.2
  2.2 CEMS and online wastewater monitoring on the drawings
  Fix CEMS points at the prilling tower, acid units and large boilers, plus online wastewater monitoring (SPARING) at the treatment outlet where required.
  According to Regulation P.17/2019 and P.93/2018 as amended by P.80/2019
  - Emission & methane monitoring
  - IoT
- 2.3
  2.3 Energy and water efficiency from the design
  Lock heat integration, waste-heat recovery and water recycling into the P&IDs, because design figures become the energy-management baseline.
  According to Ministry of Industry Regulation 11/2023 and Government Regulation 33/2023
  - Energy efficiency
  - Energy+

Phase 3: Sea monitored and valves tagged from day one.

Jetty dredging, reactor-module haulage and hot work near tanks are the biggest risks of the construction year. The seawater records and component lists made now become the reference for as long as the plant runs.

What needs to be ready

- 3.1
  3.1 Jetty dredging and outfall
  Monitor seawater quality, mangroves and reefs during dredging, then compare the results with the baseline.
  - Biodiversity monitoring
  - Biodiv+
- 3.2
  3.2 Module haulage and contractor workers
  Set load limits, escorts and travel hours for reactor modules, then record contractor wages, working hours and grievances.
  Indonesia's zero-overload rule for trucks (Zero ODOL) applies with no tolerance from 1 January 2027
  According to Bisnis.com, 2026
  - Social impact
  - Social+
- 3.3
  3.3 LDAR component tagging
  Tag valves, flanges and pump seals as the pipes go in, so the first-year leak survey has something to compare against.
  - Emission & methane monitoring
  - IoT

Phase 4: Year-one figures are read by importers and regulators for years.

MMBTU per tonne of ammonia, process CO₂ and outlet COD load this year become the reference for every later report. Meters, CEMS and online wastewater monitoring connected before commercial production make those figures verifiable.

What needs to be ready

- 4.1
  4.1 Operating certificate and CEMS on SISPEK
  Apply for the operating certificate (SLO) after trial runs, send hourly CEMS data to SISPEK and report outages within 48 hours.
  According to Environment and Forestry Ministry Regulations 5/2021 and 13/2021
  - Emission & methane monitoring
  - IoT
- 4.2
  4.2 Baseline GHG inventory and process CO₂
  Separate reformer, flare and boiler emissions from process CO₂ not absorbed into urea, unit by unit. The inventory report is due by March every year.
  According to Presidential Regulation 110/2025 and Environment Ministry Regulation 7/2026
  - GHG accounting
  - Carbon+
- 4.3
  4.3 Energy manager and per-unit baseline
  Appoint a certified energy manager and record energy per unit, since the annual report to the Energy Ministry draws on these figures.
  energy management becomes mandatory from 4,000 TOE a year
  According to Government Regulation 33/2023 and Energy Ministry Regulation 8/2025
  - Energy audit
  - Energy+

Phase 5: Gas efficiency lifts your rating and cuts cost at once.

A Green rating demands measured evidence of energy efficiency, water conservation, hazardous-waste 3R and biodiversity, and the same records fill importer requests and investor reports.

4.6% of PROPER 2024–2025 participants reached Green.

According to KLH/BPLH, 2025

What needs to be ready

- 5.1
  5.1 From Green towards Gold
  Build evidence on LCA, energy and water efficiency, hazardous-waste reduction, coastal biodiversity and SROI for fisher programmes.
  According to Environment Ministry Regulation 7/2025
  - PROPER
  - PROPER+
- 5.2
  5.2 Routine LDAR and minimal flaring
  Survey valves monthly and connectors each semester, then recover routine relief gas.
  valve leaks fall 87–96% at a 500 ppm threshold
  According to the US EPA, 2007
  - Emission & methane monitoring
  - Carbon+
- 5.3
  5.3 Actual data for importers and PSPK
  Prepare verified embedded emissions per tonne, precursors included, before importers file their first declaration. For listed companies, PSPK 1 and 2, Indonesia's adoption of IFRS S1 and S2, phase in from 2027.
  According to the European Commission; IAI, 2025
  - Market compliance
  - ESG+

Phase 6: Blue ammonia changes your permit, your market and your numbers.

A new train, a CO₂ capture unit or low-carbon hydrogen changes the plant's capacity and feedstock. Every one of those changes needs an amended Environmental Approval before construction starts.

What needs to be ready

- 6.1
  6.1 Amending the Environmental Approval
  File the addendum before a new train or capture unit is built, because changing operations without amending the permit now draws an administrative fine.
  According to Government Regulation 22/2021 Annex V and Environment Ministry Regulation 6/2026
  - Environmental permits
  - PROPER+
- 6.2
  6.2 CO₂ capture as a mitigation action
  Register CO₂ capture and use in the national climate registry (SRN PPI), then re-verify embedded emissions per tonne for importers.
  According to Presidential Regulation 110/2025
  - Carbon projects
  - Carbon+
- 6.3
  6.3 Retiring old units
  Empty the hazardous-waste store, restore contaminated land under an approved plan and prepare redeployment for operators.
  According to Environment and Forestry Ministry Regulation P.101/2018
  - Environmental permits
  - Waste+

Unit by unit, from feedstock tanks to coastal villages.

Each unit has its own limits, data and reports. Open them one by one.

Feedstock receiving and tank farm

Gas, naphtha, salt, CPO or PKO and solvents arrive by pipeline, jetty or truck and are held in bunded tanks.

Emissions
Safety
Waste
Community

What you can manage

Fit floating roofs or vapour recovery for VOC
Build secondary containment and a spill response plan
Trace CPO and PKO back to the palm oil mill

Certain palm oleochemical derivatives fall under the EUDR from 30 December 2027

Source: European Commission, 2026

Steam reformer and ammonia synthesis

Natural gas and steam become hydrogen and CO₂; the hydrogen becomes ammonia, and process CO₂ goes to urea or is vented.

Emissions
Energy
Safety

What you can manage

Test reformer NOx and SO₂ every six months
Separate process CO₂ from fuel emissions
Prepare embedded emissions per tonne for importers

2.4 vs 1.8 t CO₂ per tonne ammonia: global average vs best gas reformer

Source: IEA, 2021

GHG accounting
Carbon+

Cracker, reactors and distillation

Cracker furnaces split naphtha into olefins, reactors convert them, and distillation columns and compressors purify and pressurise the product.

Energy
Emissions
Safety

What you can manage

Submeter steam and power at each column
Integrate heat between columns as the audit advises
Run HAZOP studies on pressurised reactors

Energy audit
Energy+

Boilers, cooling towers and demin

Boilers and turbines supply steam and power, cooling towers reject heat and the demin unit prepares boiler feed water.

Energy
Emissions
Water

What you can manage

Connect large-boiler CEMS to SISPEK
Recycle blowdown and track water per tonne
Trial biomass co-firing in coal boilers

1.70–1.95 m³ water per tonne ammonia, the Green Industry Standard reference

Source: Regulation 11/2023

Water audit
Waste+

Flare and fugitive emissions

Relief gas is burned at the flare, while valves, flanges, pumps and seals across the plant leak a little at a time.

Emissions
Community
Safety

What you can manage

Survey valves monthly and connectors each semester
Recover routine relief gas instead of flaring it
Report abnormal emissions within 48 hours

653 tonnes of VOC a year leak from a typical facility, 62% from valves

Source: US EPA, 2007

Wastewater plant and sea outfall

Wastewater carrying COD, ammonia, phenol and metals is treated in stages, then discharged to sea through an outfall.

Water
Waste
Biodiversity

What you can manage

Monitor flow, pH, COD and ammonia online
Recycle treated effluent to the cooling towers
Send treatment sludge to a licensed processor

COD 3.0 and NH₃-N 0.75 kg per tonne of urea, the load limit

Source: Regulation 5/2014

Hazardous-waste store and spent catalyst

Spent reformer and converter catalyst, sludge, solvents and hazardous packaging are collected at the store before shipment.

Waste
Safety
Water

What you can manage

Keep to the 90, 180 or 365-day storage limits
Ship under electronic manifest with licensed handlers
Recover catalyst metals once approval and certificate are issued

Waste-to-X
Waste+

Prilling, warehouse and distribution

Urea is prilled and bagged, while ammonia and liquid chemicals leave by road tanker, ship or rail.

Emissions
Safety
Community

What you can manage

Monitor prilling-tower PM and ammonia continuously
Weigh every truck and refuse overloads
Log tonne-km by mode for Scope 3

9.8 million tonnes of subsidised fertiliser allocated for 2026

Source: Fortune Indonesia, 2025

GHG accounting
Carbon+

Jetty and export shipping

Ammonia, urea and polymers are loaded onto ships in waters shared with mangroves, reefs and fishers.

Biodiversity
Community
Emissions
Water

What you can manage

Monitor seawater against the baseline
Prepare ammonia and hydrocarbon spill response
Send embedded-emissions data with every EU shipment

30 September 2027, deadline for the first CBAM declaration on 2026 imports

Source: European Commission

Market compliance
Carbon+

Coastal villages and emergency response

Fishing villages near the jetty and ammonia tanks sit inside the dispersion zone, so emergency readiness is a shared task.

Community
Safety

What you can manage

Drill evacuations with villages: sirens, routes, assembly points
Log complaints on odour, flare flame and fish catch
Measure fisher programme results with SROI

Social impact
Social+

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One source of data for PROPER, importers and PSPK.

Production, HSE and sustainability teams often copy the same reformer figures into different documents, and every copy leaves room for a mismatch at verification. Ailesh+ brings it together: CEMS and meters via IoT, energy in Energy+, emissions and process CO₂ in Carbon+, catalyst and water in Waste+, coastal habitats in Biodiv+, village programmes in Social+. PROPER+ and ESG+ then build your reports from that same source.

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From reformer to jetty, every figure ready for audit.

Importers, inspectors and investors read the same meters.

Risk

Opportunity

Priority

EU CBAM

Fertiliser emission standards (Environment and Forestry Ministry Regulation P.17/2019)

Carbon pricing (Presidential Regulation 110/2025; Environment Ministry Regulation 7/2026)

From coastal site to new train, one chain of data.

Phase 1: Emissions intensity is settled before the first pile goes in.

What needs to be ready

1.1 Technology and carbon exposure

1.2 Marine, coastal and village baseline

1.3 AMDAL and hazard zones

Phase 2: CEMS, flare and waste store are fixed on the drawings.

What needs to be ready

2.1 AMDAL and technical approvals in parallel

2.2 CEMS and online wastewater monitoring on the drawings

2.3 Energy and water efficiency from the design

Phase 3: Sea monitored and valves tagged from day one.

What needs to be ready

3.1 Jetty dredging and outfall

3.2 Module haulage and contractor workers

3.3 LDAR component tagging

Phase 4: Year-one figures are read by importers and regulators for years.

What needs to be ready

4.1 Operating certificate and CEMS on SISPEK

4.2 Baseline GHG inventory and process CO₂

4.3 Energy manager and per-unit baseline

Phase 5: Gas efficiency lifts your rating and cuts cost at once.

What needs to be ready

5.1 From Green towards Gold

5.2 Routine LDAR and minimal flaring

5.3 Actual data for importers and PSPK

Phase 6: Blue ammonia changes your permit, your market and your numbers.

What needs to be ready

6.1 Amending the Environmental Approval

6.2 CO₂ capture as a mitigation action

6.3 Retiring old units

Unit by unit, from feedstock tanks to coastal villages.

Feedstock receiving and tank farm

Steam reformer and ammonia synthesis

Cracker, reactors and distillation

Boilers, cooling towers and demin

Flare and fugitive emissions

Wastewater plant and sea outfall

Hazardous-waste store and spent catalyst

Prilling, warehouse and distribution

Jetty and export shipping

Coastal villages and emergency response

One source of data for PROPER, importers and PSPK.

Which phase is your chemical plant in?