There Is An Iran-Israel Conflict, Pertamina Prepares An Option To Engineering The Route Of Oil Carriers

Pertamina's Vice President of Corporate Communication, Fadjar Djoko Santoso. (Photo: Maria Trisnawati/VOI)

JAKARTA - PT Pertamina (Persero) has opened its voice regarding the Israeli and Iranian conflicts that have the potential to have an impact on the process of shipping crude oil from the Middle East.

Pertamina's Vice President of Corporate Communication, Fadjar Djoko Santoso, said that his party would mitigate several scenarios if later the conflict between the two countries affected the delivery of crude to Indonesia.

Fadjar said, actually the conflict in the Middle East continues to fluctuate and the lagkah that Pertamina usually takes is by engineering the route (reroute).

"The Middle East is always fluctuating there and it has happened several times so we usually mitigate it when our ship re-routes through safe routes," he told the media crew at Graha Pertamina, Friday, June 13,

In addition to engineering, Pertamina has also prepared other scenarios such as finding countries with other oil sources that are safe from conflict.

According to him, so far Pertamina has not been involved in long-term contracts with countries that supply crude so that Indonesia can make modifications if there are conflicts and disturbances from supply countries at any time.

"So we can modify if there is a disturbance at one point. It could shift, for example from Africa," added Simon.

Even though he has prepared a scenario, Fadjar admits that until now there has been no significant impact from the conflict between the two countries.

"Maybe later PIS (Pertamina International Shipping) and Patra Niaga will mitigate the impact as seriously as the recent conflict," said Fadjar.