Pertamina to use PDSI?s rig in Algerian block

By Brigida Ernestina Elu Wea

PT Pertamina Internasional EP (PIEP), the international upstream arm of stated owned oil and gas firm PT Pertamina (Persero) plans to send a rig made by PT Pertamina Drilling Services Indonesia (PDSI) to Algeria for utilization at PIEP?s fields in the country.

?The rig is now in finishing phase prior to mobilization,? PIEP?s President Director Slamet Riadhy said, adding the rig is 1500 HP type and scheduled to be shipped to Algeria in April of this year.

?If the government agrees the rig will be used to drill 20 wells owned by Pertamina there,? he told Petromindo.com.

Last year, PIEP produced a total of 113,000 bpd of oil, including 39,000 bopd from Algeria, 36,000 bopd from Iraq and 38,000 bopd from Malaysia.

Editing by Johannes Simbolon