Pertamina Has A New President Director, Bahlil Invites To Hold A Meeting Next Week

JAKARTA - Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) Bahlil Lahadalia revealed that he would hold a meeting with the newly appointed President Director of PT Pertamina (Perseo) replacing Nicke Widyawati, Simon Aloysius Mantiri.

Bahlil said the meeting was held with a presidential agenda in the form of efforts to increase Indonesia's oil lifting, mostly held by Pertamina.

"Oh, I have a very important interest in Pertamina because 65 percent of our lifting is controlled by Pertamina," he told the media crew at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Building, Monday, November 4.

With the large portion of the lifting, Bahlil said that later Pertamina would coordinate a lot with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources as technical ministries.

"We will explore, improve lifting, idle wells. And I will finish inviting them to we have a coordination meeting," said Bahlil.

Bahlil said that the coordination meeting was planned to be held this week after the inauguration was held.

"Oh, this week, this week, yes. New people are appointed, right. He must be consulting," he added.

The next agenda that will be discussed is the use of technology interventions on existing wells, one of which is the use of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) technology.

"The third, the next is that he must carry out exploration. Of all the working areas that already have Pertamina. Because we do rely on Pertamina because 65 percent of the liftings are Pertamina," said Bahlil.

Just so you know, the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises (BUMN) today, Monday, November 4 made changes to the composition of the leadership of PT Pertamina (Persero) through the General Meeting of Shareholders (GMS).

In the GMS where the decision was contained in SK-258/MBU/11/2024 and SK-259/MBU/11/2024 concerning the Dismissal and Appointment of Members of the Board of Commissioners and Directors of the Company (Persero) PT Pertamina, Mochamad Iriawan as President Commissioner, Dony Oskaria as Deputy President Commissioner, Raden Adjeng Sondaryani as Independent Commissioner and Simon Aloysius Mantiri as President Director of Pertamina replacing Nicke Widyawati.