SKK Migas to collect all geological and geophysical data from PSC holders
Tuesday, May 26 2015 - 01:27 AM WIB
Amien Sunaryadi, Chairman of upstream authority SKK Migas, said recently the agency has launched a program to collect all geological and geophysical data from all Production Sharing Contract (PSC) holders to build a complete database at the agency.
Amien said thus far SKK Migas does not have a complete database on the results of exploration by the PSC holders, which has become an obstacle for the agency to identify potentials in the country?s oil and gas working areas.
?There are 150 PSC holders operating a total of 304 working areas. Each block or field must have its own exploration data, including preliminary study data, seismic data, drilling data etc. At present, SKK Migas does not have a complete information regarding these. Therefore, we shall audit all the geological data being held by PSC holders.
?First of all, we shall inventory their whereabouts, their physical forms, whether they are in the form of coring rocks, documents, digital data etc. We shall inventory these one by one. They must be available (to be acquired by SKK Migas) because they have been paid for by the government with cost recovery,? Amien said, adding the data collection may take two years to complete.
?if we have a complete data, it will be easier for us to predict new oil and gas resource potentials. Most of the data are being held by PSC holders. They must be plentiful and scattered in various places. They are all technical data. Only geologists can understand them and only IT people can understand the database,? he said.
As such, SKK Migas will form a team comprising geologists and IT experts to inventory the data. Aside from data at PSC holders, the team will also inventory the data held by the Pusdatin, which is a unit at Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources tasked with collecting data. Pusdatin has two kinds of data, namely rock samples which are kept by an agency called Sigma; and digital data which are kept by Patra Nusa Data, a subsidiary of Elnusa.
Editing by Johannes Simbolon