PetroChina Mulai Uji Co2 Injection Huff &wah Di Jabung

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JAKARTA - SKK Migas and PetroChina International Jabung Ltd. Mulai melakukan uji coba lapangan (field trial) CO2 Injection Huff & airfall di well minyak Gemah-6 di Wilayah Kerja (WK) Jabung di Tanjung Jabung Timur, Jambi.

The CO2 injection trial program starts on Thursday, December 8, and will last for 30 days with an injection volume target of 1,800 tons of CO2.

This trial is the second CO2 injection program carried out in Indonesia after the Jatibarang field in October this year operated by PT Pertamina.

The CO2 Injection program is a follow-up to President Joko Widodo's 2016 Action Plan which is expected to increase oil and gas reserves (oil and gas) to 4.6 billion STB (Barel Tank stock) from 136 oil and gas fields in Indonesia.

The implementer of this program is PT Daqing Petroleum Services, which has a long experience in the research and implementation of Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR), in collaboration with PT Gemilang Buana Utama as a local business partner.

"We hope that the trial of the CO2 Injection Huff & airshed program will run smoothly with satisfactory results. The success of this program is very important as a reference to the implementation of the oil and gas production improvement program by utilizing CO2 at WK Jabung in the future," said President Director PetroChina Qian Mingyang to the media, Monday 12 December.

He added that the application of this technology also adds to PetroChina's confidence to maximize Jabung's potential in the contract extension period of 20 years.

Just so you know, as a Cooperation Contract Contract Contract Contractor (KKKS) and the Jabung WK operator since 2002, PetroChina has managed to maintain daily production on average above 50,000 BOEPD since 2006 until now. Following the certainty of the extension of the WK Jabung contract for the period 2023 2043 at the end of last year, PetroChina has started various production facilities exploration, development and maintenance programs, including the implementation of CO2 Injection Huff & airing at the Gemah-6 oil well.

In this trial, a large amount of carbon dioxide gas was injected into the Simpang reservoir from the Lower Talang Akar formation in Gemah-6. This trial is a milestone to see the feasibility of reservoirs in general at the Jabung WK and obtain data to see the potential of the EOR program by further CO2 injection.

As part of the national upstream oil and gas industry, PetroChina is committed to supporting a government production target of 1,000,000 BOPD oil and 12 BSCFD gas by 2030 through exploration programs, increased production and field development in the future.

Deputy for Exploration, Development and Management of the SKK Migas, Benny Lubiantara, said that the injection of CO2 Huff & airways at Sumur Gemah-6 was one of the exploitation efforts carried out by SKK Migas and KKKS to increase the draining of petroleum from reservoirs using the CO2 injection method.

The CO2 Huff & air injection activity at Sumur Gemah-6 is part of the CO2-EOR implementation stage at Gemah Field, making it very possible to increase national oil production and reserves.

In addition, this CO2 injection activity can be categorized as an effort to implement Carbon Capture Storage (CCS) or Carbon Capture Utility Storage (CCUS) in supporting Indonesia's Net Zero Emission (NZE) target in 2060.

Benny said SKK Migas would continue to encourage KKKS to carry out exploration and exploitation in order to achieve the 2030 production target.

"Supervision of SKK Migas continues to be carried out to pursue these targets, and we will continue to ask the KKKS to take exploration and exploitation steps to increase national oil and gas lifting and these efforts continue to be carried out," said Benny.

PetroChina is a Cooperation Contract Contract Contractor (KKKS) that operates WK Jabung under the supervision and control of SKK Migas. In the management of WK Jabung, PetroChina partnered with PT Pertamina Hulu Energi Jabung, PT GPI Jabung Indonesia, and PETRONAS Caringali (Jabung) Ltd.