Three police personnel killed in Trembul oil concession
Wednesday, October 11 2017 - 05:17 AM WIB
Three personnel of the Police?s Mobile Brigade were shot to death Tuesday evening at an oil drilling site in Trembul Area, Central Java Province.
Pandjie Galih Anoraga, Public Relations Officer at PT Pertamina EP Asset V, which owns the Trembul Area concession, confirmed the incident. He told Petromindo.com that the company is currently waiting for the results of investigation by the police.
According to Ngawen Police Chief in Blora Regency, Central Java, AKP Yulianto, as quoted by kompas.com, the three police officers were on duty to guard the oil drilling project when the incident occurred. He said that investigation process is in progress.
PT Sarana GSS Trembul (SGT), a joint venture between SGX-listed GSS Energy and Central Java province administration-owned company PT Sarana Pembangunan Jawa Tengah, operates the Trembul are.
GSS Energy through its 49 percent-owned SGT was awarded a 15-year joint operation (KSO) for the production of Trembul area by Pertamina EP in September of last year.
The Trembul Operation Area is situated within Blora Regency. It lies within the Kening Trough on the onshore East Java Basin, between Purwodadi High and East Cepu High, with reservoir potentials in Ledok, Wonocolo, Ngrayong, Tawun and Kujung.
Trembul Operation Area has 24 wells in total that were initially explored by Nederlandsche Koloniale Petroleum Mij (NKPM), a subsidiary of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, now ExxonMobil, in 1917.
The area has approximately 40.1 million barrels of oil reserve, but NKPM only drilled out around 307,000 barrels.
Editing by Reiner Simanjuntak