With This Technology, PHR Saves Drilling Fees Of Up To IDR 4.5 Billion Per Well

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JAKARTA - PT Pertamina Hulu Rokan (PHR) Regional Sumatra Subholding Upstream Pertamina made a new innovation in efforts to drill oil and gas wells (oil and gas) in the Rokan Working Area (WK) field, namely Open-hole Slotter Liner (Pensl).

This innovation succeeded in saving drilling costs of up to IDR 4.5 billion per well.

PHR Executive Vice President of Upstream Business, Edwil Suzandi, said that he realized that PHR had been transferred over the management of mature fields. However, this is not an excuse not to be productive.

"The innovation of the officers has overcome this assumption. Therefore, we continue to provide space for the nation's children who are members of PHR to innovate," said Edwil in his statement to the media, Friday, March 15.

PHR's Well Development SLO Manager, Muhamad Irfan, said that previously in an effort to drill wells, a drilling rig (installation) was needed to carry out the marketing of wells with low quality rock coatings or low quality reservoirs (LQR), where fluids containing oil were difficult to flow.

The fracturing process is carried out using special rigs. With a massive drilling plan on PHR and a limited number of fracturing rigs, it makes the waiting list long.

Through Pensl's innovation, he said, the drilling rig process for this rectification is no longer needed. So that it has an impact on no waiting time or long drilling queues, and automatically has an impact on saving drilling costs.

"With this Pensl innovation, it can cut up to 50 days of drilling time to enter the production plan or put on production (POP). This Pensl method also manages to save drilling costs of up to an average of IDR 4.5 billion per well," said Irfan.

Irfan added, from the trial of 20 wells in the South WK Rokan Balam field, there was an increase in average production of 400 barrels of oil per day (BOPD). In addition, continued Irfan, through this Pensl innovation, PHR provided additional profits (revenue growth) and savings of Rp. 140 billion from the 20 wells for the country. In its projection, Irfan estimates that the application of Pensl's method until the end of the year could result in revenue growth and cost savings of up to Rp 210 billion for the country until the end of 2024.