PEPC preparing drilling site in JBT fields

By Febry Silaban

PT Pertamina EP Cepu (PEPC), a subsidiary of state owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina (Persero), is currently preparing the location and path for drilling in 2017 at the unitization project of Jambaran and Tiung Biru (JBT) fields in Central Java, according to a top official of PEPC.

"For this year, we have no plans of drilling at JBT fields. The activities currently are only site and path preparation for drilling in 2017,? PEPC?s President Director Adriansyah told Petromindo.com.

The company estimated earlier that the project will come onstream either at the end of 2018 or in the first quarter of 2019 at the latest.

Tiung Biru field is located within Pertamina EP?s Cepu operations area which is adjacent to the giant Cepu oil and gas block jointly operated by ExxonMobil Cepu Limited (EMCL) and PEPC. The Jambaran gas field is located within the Cepu block, which is operated by EMCL, a unit of ExxonMobil Indonesia. EMCL and Pertamina EP agreed in September 2012 to unitize both fields.

Editing by Johannes Simbolon