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(Corrects Tangguh project ownership details) JAKARTA, April 4 (Reuters) - * Oil major BP is targeting shipping 119 cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from its Tangguh project in Indonesia's West Papua province this year, including 22 for the domestic market, a company official said on Wednesday.
* BP expects to keep the same balance of shipments for export and the domestic market unchanged up to 2020, BP Indonesia country head Dharmawan Samsu told a parliament hearing.
* After 2020 BP will dedicate roughly one-third of the LNG output from Tangguh to the domestic market, or around 60 cargoes, Samsu said.
* Tangguh's annual output capacity is currently 7.6 million tonnes of the super-cooled fuel from two LNG trains.
* An LNG train liquefies natural gas by cooling it to about minus 160 degrees Celsius, which condenses the gas to about 1/600th of its volume for transportation by ship.
* The Tangguh project currently has two LNG trains. A third train is currently under construction and is expected to be completed around 2020, Samsu said.
* BP leads the Tangguh project with a 40.22 percent participating interest. Its partners include China National Offshore Oil Co (CNOOC) and a venture between Mitsubishi Corp and Inpex, among others.
The table below shows buyers of LNG from BP's Tangguh project this year.
Buyer (cargoes) Domestic PLN 20 PGN 2 Export Fujian 42 SK Korea 8 Posco 9 Tokoku 6 Sempra 3 Kansai 4 Itochu 6 ISE 1 Marubeni 6 Origin^ 4 DGI 2 Engie 1 Cheniere 1 Shell 4 Total 119 ^ spot sale (Reporting by Wilda Asmarini; Writing by Fergus Jensen; Editing by Christian Schmollinger and David Evans)