JAKARTA, Aug. 11 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia's state-run oil and gas firm PT Pertamina plans to buy 600,000 tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Oman to meet local demand, an executive said Friday.

    "Oman's LNG factories can produce 10.5 million tons and they have excessive output of some 600,000 tons. We ask Oman to sell the excessive output to Indonesia," Pertamina president Ari Soemarno told reporters here.

    The purchase from Oman will cover only a little part of additional LNG supplies sought by Pertamina at some 4.2 million tons.

    Besides Oman, Pertamina also is approaching Qatar to buy 200,000 tons of LNG, said Soemarno, adding that the company is in intense talks with Qatari officials. Enditem