Pertamina to drill 2 delineation-wells in West Java

State-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina planned to drill two delineation wells at its Pondok Tengah oil field in Bekasi regency of West Java province by mid-July of this year, a company official said on Thursday.

Subarkah Kustowo, Pertamina?s manager for West Java upstream operation, told Petromindo.com that the company was now conducting 3-D seismic at the field.

Pertamina earlier said that the new oil reserve found at the site, which is located in Buni Baru village, Babelan subdistrict, Bekasi, would contribute 233 million barrels of oil (MMBO), almost a quarter of the total of one billion barrels of new oil reserves found by Pertamina.

The exploration of Pondok Tengah began in 1995 and the drilling of the well was completed at the end of 2003 with a final depth of 2,311 meters, Pertamina said.

Pertamina has other oil wells in Bekasi, in the Tambun area, which already produces crude oil. Production reached 2.23 million barrels of oil in 2003, with an average production of 6,126.1 barrels per day.

There are five areas in Tambun that produce crude oil, namely Block A with four wells, Block B and Block C have two wells each, Block F with five wells (one well has yet to be drilled), and Block G with two wells. All the oil wells are under the West Java Downstream Operation office.

Subarkah said that the company would also re-activate two old oil flatforms in its X-Ray oil field in Indramayu regency of West Java to boost production to 1,500 barrel per day from currently 1,000 bpd. (Godang)