Pertamina to digitalize all fuel nozzles this year
Monday, June 10 2019 - 04:53 AM WIB
State-owned diversified energy company PT Pertamina is scheduled to digitalize all of its fuel nozzles by the end of this year.
The digitalization of fuel nozzle which uses a technology called automatic tank gauging (ATG), would enable Pertamina to have real-time data on the company’s daily fuel sales in each gas station (SPBU).
Pertamina’s retail marketing director, Mas’ud Khamid, was quoted by The Jakarta Post recently that to date the company had only installed the ATG in about 1,000 of its 5,518 SPBUs.
“Right now we have installed it in 1,000 gas stations, but only in 300 gas stations that have been integrated [or connected] with the local server in each station,” he said.
“We expect to digitalize 5,518 SPBUs by year-end.”
He said that the 1,000 stations had been installed with the software, hardware, a data center and also a firewall.
The technology system was provided by state-owned telecommunications company PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia (Telkom), which would be paid through each fuel sale, said Mas’ud.
The Downstream Oil and Gas Regulatory Agency (BPH Migas), Pertamina and Telkom signed the cooperation agreement in August last year as a follow up to the nozzle digitalization pilot project months earlier.
The pilot project began in early 2018 at 10 Pertamina-owned gas stations located in Jakarta, Bekasi, on the Cikopo-Palimanan (Cipali) toll road in West Java, in Yogyakarta, Sidoarjo, on the Cipularang toll road and in South Tangerang.
The technology would replace the current manual method of measuring the remaining fuel stock in gas stations, which still requires a wooden stick. (*)