Komut Pertamina Ahok Believes Papua Is Progressing Thanks To Easy Access To Oil And LPG Services

Pertamina's President Commissioner, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) made a visit to downstream oil and gas in Papua. (Photo: Doc. Antara)

JAKARTA - The President Commissioner of PT Pertamina (Persero), Basuki Tjahaja Purnama or BTP, made a working visit to several points that are downstream of PT Pertamina's oil and gas in Papua, to monitor and oversee the performance of the company PT Pertamina in eastern Indonesia.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama used a week-long working visit to Papua to inspect one of Pertamina's assets in Sorong, namely the Sorong Fuel Terminal and the Aircraft Filling Depot at Domine Esok Airport, Sorong.

During his visit to Sorong, BTP had the opportunity to greet the workers. He encourages employees to always uphold integrity, and give their best in their work.

Basuki Tjahaja Purnama also visited the DPPU of Domine Eduard Osok Airport, Sorong. During the visit, he discussed with the ranks of the Papua-Maluku Regional Commercial and Trading Subholding.

BTP in the discussion said that Pertamina was given a mandate by the Government to be able to distribute oil and LPG to the community in a proportional, fair and equitable manner, as a form of fulfilling oil and gas needs, especially in eastern Indonesia.

He also advised Pertamina to continue to innovate by increasing the opening of product distribution channels such as General Fuel (SPBU), Pertashop, and LPG agencies. In the process, BTP also emphasized that Pertamina should level the playing field and transparency for anyone interested in becoming Pertamina's partner. Considering that the Papua-Maluku Region faces geographical challenges in Papua region in distributing products to meet the needs of the community.

He believes that Papua will progress further with easy access to LPG Oil and Gas services. We must continue to innovate for the execution of the One Village One Outlet (OVOO) program.

"Including us, we must also think about the most efficient way of distributing Pertamina's products to each district in Papua to meet the needs of the community", he said in Sorong, quoted from Antara, Friday, October 29.

Executive General Manager of Pertamina Patra Niaga Sub Holding Commercial and Trading Regional Papua Maluku, Yoyok Wahyu Maniadi in Sorong, Friday, explained the services carried out for 4 provinces for 7.4 million people, annual fuel distribution of 2.06 million kiloliters, Kerosene 292 kiloliters per year, distribution of non-subsidized LPG 9.7 MT per year, and Avtur 157 thousand kiloliters per year with business revenues of IDR 15 trillion per year.

"We were given the mandate to distribute fuel and LPG gas to 4 provinces, namely in Papua, West Papua, Maluku, and North Maluku, the annual distribution of fuel is 2.06 million kiloliters, Kerosene 292 thousand kiloliters, subsidized LPG 9.7 thousand MT, and Avtur 157 thousand kiloliters, said Yoyok

This fuel and gas service, the available infrastructure is 20 Fuel Terminals, 1 Jobber, 12 DPPU spread across Papua and Maluku, of which 347 gas stations can be reached by land transportation, 153 gas stations are reached by Air Multimodal, and 19 gas stations can be reached by Air Multimodal.

Yoyok said that to reach Pertamina's BBM customers and facilitate the distribution of BBM, Pertashop was developed with a 2022 target of 221 Pertashop outlets, 129 Pertashop outlets have been operating, and 106 Pertashop outlets are in process.

"The total operational plan is 235 Pertashop outlets, for the development of Pertashop in the Papua region to reach 76 percent so that it is targeted that in the future fuel services will be more optimal", he said.

Edi Mangun, Area Manager Communication Relations, and CSR at Pertamina Patra Niaga Sub Holding Commercial and Trading Regional Papua Maluku, who gave a separate statement, added that the presence of the President Commissioner of PT Pertamina (Persero), Basuki Tjahaja Purnama was more about monitoring the company's operational performance in supply and distribution activities. , and provide solutions to the obstacles found related to Pertamina's main task as a BUMN that was given an assignment by the State to distribute Energy to remote areas of the country.