JAKARTA, July 24 (Reuters) - Indonesia, the world's biggest palm oil producer, is checking fuel with a view to increasing to 40% from 35% the share of palm-oil blended into biodiesel next year, the energy ministry stated.

If carried out, the B40 required might increase biodiesel intake to approximately 16 million kilolitres (KL) next year, the ministry stated, from 13 million KL approximated to be consumed in 2024.

"We hope the trials might be finished in December, so that complete application of B40 could be performed in 2025," energy ministry senior official Eniya Listiani Dewi stated in a statement on Tuesday.

The Indonesian Biofuel Producers Association (APROBI) said the market had the capacity to satisfy B40 need, with set up capability expected to increase to 20 million KL annually next year from 18 million KL now.

"However we will require more raw materials to satisfy B40 demand," Ernest Gunawan, the secretary general of APROBI informed Reuters on Wednesday.

The biodiesel industry would require 13.9 million metric loads of unrefined palm oil to produce 16 million KL biodiesel next year, from the estimated 11 million loads required this year, he .

Indonesia's most significant palm oil association GAPKI said a decline in exports meant there would be sufficient basic materials to supply the B40 mandate for now.

But the industry would require to evaluate "which one would be better", GAPKI chairman Eddy Martono stated, referring to the possibility an increase in exports would make supplying the domestic market less viable.

Indonesia's palm oil output is approximated to reach 54.4 million loads in 2024, a 2.26% boost from in 2015, while exports are anticipated to decrease by 2.47% to 29.5 million lots as domestic consumption rose, driven by biodiesel mandate.

The ministry had actually evaluated the biodiesel, blended with 40% of palm oil, on a train for the very first time previously this week, while planning to evaluate the B40 mix on agriculture machinery, power plants and in the shipping industry, it stated. (Reporting by Bernadette Christina and Dewi Kurniawati