Harbour Energy Leaves, This Russian Oil And Gas Company Still Working On Tuna Blocks

JAKARTA - The Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities (SKK Migas) revealed that the Russian oil and gas giant, Zarubezhneft, will continue with the development plan or plan of development (POD) of the Tuna Block.

On the other hand, Harbour Energy, who was previously a partner, decided to leave the Tuna Block. For this reason, Zarubezhneft is currently looking for a replacement partner to work on this oil and gas block located off the North Natuna Beach.

"Russia, (Zarubezhneft) he will work on (Blok) Tuna. He is looking for a partner," said Head of SKK Migas, Djoko Siswanto to the media crew quoted on Tuesday, July 22.

Met on the same occasion, Deputy for Exploration, Development and Management of the Working Area, Rikky Rahmat Firdaus said, for the first development plan in the Tuna Block, Harbor Energy decided to leave. According to Rikky, this is due to the continuing sanctions from the western state for Russia

"So for the POD 1 Tuna, there was indeed a position from the previous KKKS Harbor that he could not continue if there was a SANCTION US, right next to him (Zarubezhneft)," said Rikky.

On the other hand, he continued, Harbour Energy also has a desire to work on other projects in the northern sea area. This is supported by the onstream target of the Tuna Block which has been set in 2028-2029, so that the continuation of the Tuna field will be worked on by Zarubezhneft.

"So in this context we assign operators today to continue the activities of Front End Engineering Design (FEED) to continue," continued Rikky.

Rikky also said that the process of leaving Harbor from the Tuna Block was also running smoothly because the British oil and gas company was willing to submit data to the next operator.

Meanwhile, Zarubezhneft is looking for a replacement partner for Harbour Energy who is ready to collaborate on the Tuna Block. The criteria for the partner that Zarubezhneft wants are KKKS which has operational experience.

"Zarubezhneft needs to collaborate with new investors who can operate because Zakubezhneft was previously also a non-operator here," said Rikky.