Government to issue regulation on oil, gas flowmeter

Petromindo

The government via the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources will soon issue a new regulation on oil and gas output flow meter to help improve the monitoring of production.

Director General of Oil and Gas at the ministry, IGN Wiratmaja Puja as saying that the flowmeter currently only being deployed at the lifting stage, when the oil and gas output is being put onto vessels.

He said that the government now wants to also install the flowmeter at the oil and gas production facilities.

Wiratmaja said that the upstream oil and gas authority will be in charge of the provision, installation and operation of the flow meter.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak