Taufan Marhaendrajana resigns from SKK Migas

Taufan Marhaendrajana has resigned from his position as Deputy for Exploitation at the upstream oil and gas authority SKK Migas, marking the end of his tenure in one of the country’s most strategic upstream oil and gas posts.

Taufan confirmed that the administrative process is currently underway. “Insya Allah the information is correct. It is being processed regarding the effective date,” he told Ruangenergi.com on Wednesday (Feb. 18, 2026).

He was appointed Deputy for Exploitation on Feb. 26, 2025, after being inaugurated by Energy and Mineral Resources Minister Bahlil Lahadalia as part of a leadership rotation within the institution. At the time, the government tasked newly appointed officials with accelerating national oil lifting, which remained below target.

During his tenure, Taufan was involved in a number of strategic initiatives aimed at boosting upstream performance, including efforts to optimize production from community wells and enhance output from oil and gas fields in cooperation with Production Sharing Contract Contractors (KKKS).

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Before joining SKK Migas, Taufan was widely known as an academic at Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), where he serves as a professor of reservoir engineering at the Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering.

An alumnus of ITB, he earned his bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering in 1991. He later obtained his master’s degree (1995) and doctorate (2000) in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University.

At ITB, he previously headed the postgraduate petroleum engineering program from 2014 to 2017 and served as head of the university’s Science Techno Park. His research focuses on reservoir simulation, enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and reservoir characterization. Over the course of his academic career, he has produced dozens of scientific publications and secured several intellectual property rights in the energy sector.

His resignation signals a return to academia, reaffirming his longstanding role as a researcher and educator in Indonesia’s petroleum engineering community.

Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak