New minister vows to transform oil, mining and power industries
Wednesday, July 27 2016 - 04:48 PM WIB
?Transformation in the energy and mineral resources sector is not an option but a must,? Archandra said in his speech during the ceremony in which he officially took over from former minister Sudirman Said.
He said his program in transforming the industries consist of three pillars:
1. Making business process efficient, transparent and measurable
2. Competent human resources supported by knowledge, skills and experience
3. Utilizing appropriate and on-target technology so that human resources and business process that are being developed become effective and efficient
The new minister talked more about the oil and gas industry and less about power and mining industries in his speech. He also underlined the importance of the application of technology.
He noted that Oil and Gas Law No. 22/2001 needs amendment given the fact that the challenges Indonesia is facing now are different the ones it did at the time the law was made.
?The new oil and gas law must be able to meet the challenge posed by the fact that the era of big oil fields, coupled with comfortable geological condition and available infrastructures has been over. Now is the era of marginal fields, offshore including deepwater, tight and shale oil/gas ad EOR. The new era is even worse due to remote locations and lack of infrastructures,? he said.
?The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources should become a pioneer in learning and adopting technology. The US is able to increase its production twice as much within seven years owing to technology, coupled with business process and talented human resources,? he said.
He note that he had been working in the US for 20 years until President Joko Widodo recently asked him to come back to Indonesia to become a minister.
Arhcanda is a graduate of the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) who obtained a scholarship from tin giant PT Timah Tbk to study offshore rigs in Texas. His was a consultant of PT Pertamina Hulu Energi in the ONWJ project. He was also said to have advised Jokowi adopt onshore LNG facility in the development of the Masela block.
According to Linkedln, before taking the ministerial position, he was president at Petroneering in Houston, a technology development and engineering company focused on design and development of more durable, effective, and safe offshore platforms. He has over fourteen years of experience in the field of hydrodynamics and offshore engineering.
He has developed his specialized expertise through his extensive schooling and through practical experience in the industry. He has been working with the inventors of the floating and compliant drilling and production system, Spar, TLP, Compliant Tower, Buoyant Tower and Multi Colum Floater for the last 13 years. The TLP and Spar products alone represent the vast majority of all the combined floating drilling and production systems operational in the world today.
Archandra has been awarded 3 offshore related patents and the co-author of well recognized and industry standard hydrodynamics program HARP/CHARM3D. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia. He received his Master of Science and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Ocean Engineering from Texas A&M Universities in 2001.
Editing by Johannes Simbolon