Want To Order Illegal Oil Wells, Head Of SKK Migas: South Sumatra Especially

Head of the Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities (SKK Migas) Djoko Siswanto. (Photo: Doc.ANTARA)

SENIPAH - Head of the Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities (SKK Migas) Djoko Siswanto confirmed that he would control oil wells that have been managed by the community illegally. Later this illegal oil well will be managed by Regional Owned Enterprises (BUMD).

According to Djoko, this control will target a number of areas, especially South Sumatra, which have the largest oil and gas WKs such as the Rokan Block managed by Pertamina. Not only South Sumatra, control will also be carried out until the Aceh region and the Java.ar region.

"There is (the target). South Sumatra is especially. There is Aceh, there is Java," said Djoko briefly to the media crew when met at the Onshore Receiving Facility ENI Muara Bakau BV Sevenah, East Kalimantan, Wednesday, April 30.

Currently Djoko said that his party together with the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources (ESDM) are preparing regulations for the management of illegal oil wells by BUMD which are targeted to be completed in May.

"We are in the process of being regulated. Hopefully it will be finished next month," said Djoko.

This is in line with Bahlil's previous statement that he will eradicate illegal drilling by forming a new regulation. Bahlil said that this regulation improvement was intended so that oil wells that had been managed by the community could be recognized for their production as part of the lifting which Pertamina would then accommodate at a better price.

"The wells that people manage must be legalized and can be recognized for production as part of the lifting that Pertamina will accommodate at a good price," Bahlil told the media crew at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Building, Monday, April 28.

Meanwhile, Acting Director General of Oil and Gas of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources Tri Winarno said the distribution of community oil wells was in South Sumatra (Musi Banyuasin), Aceh, Jambi, Central Java, and East Java, with the number in South Sumatra reaching more than 7,700 wells.

"Based on the reports we received from various agencies, the distribution of community oil wells in South Sumatra, namely Musi Banyuasin South Sumatra, Aceh, Jambi, Central Java, and East Java," Tri said in a Hearing Meeting (RDP) with Commission XII DPR RI, Monday, April 28.

According to him, drilling of 7,700 wells involved 230,000 people with an average of 30 people per well. Meanwhile, oil production per day from these illegal wells reaches 6000 to 10,000 barrels per day.

"Production is between 6,000 and 10,000 barrels of oil per day, it depends on the day and the situation, but in average between 6,000 and 10,000," Tri said.