PHE: Drilling in progress at Melucut-1 shale well

By Bernard Loebs

Petromindo

PT Pertamina Hulu Energi (PHE) said that drilling of the Melucut-1 shale well, in Sumbagut non-conventional PSC in North Sumatra Province, is currently in progress.

?Drilling has been ongoing since the past few days,? said PHE President Director Gunung Sardjono to Petromindo.com on Wednesday.

He said that the company is cooperating with PT Pertamina EP (PEP) in the drilling program. The objective of the PEP drilling is conventional hydrocarbon, while the objective of the PHE drilling is to obtain core data of tight rocks interval believed to have potential as unconventional target.

The block is 100 percent owned by PHE. It is the first shale block wholesale led light bulbs ever awarded by the government. It was awarded to Pertamina in May 2015.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak