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AsianOil                                     NEWS IN BRIEF                                           AsianOil







       SOUTH ASIA                          (Persero) signed a Memorandum of     difficult to produce their oil and gas if they are
                                           Understanding with PT Krakatau Bandar   not supported by qualified drilling activities.
       IOC financial performance           Samudera (Krakatau International Port)   optimal drilling performance is closely related
                                                                                  In the Indonesian oil and gas industry,
                                           concerning bunkering low sulfur marine fuel
       Q1 2021-22                          oil (MFO) at Krakatau International Port,   to PT Pertamina Drilling Services Indonesia
                                           Merak.
                                                                                (PDSI). At the age of 13 years, PDSI has
       Indianoil-Q1-Financial-Results-for-FY-  Central Marketing and Commercial   completed hundreds of drilling activities in
       2021-22IndianOil reported Revenue from   Director of PT Pertamina Patra Niaga   the very good category (operation excellence).
       Operations of Rs 1,55,056 crores for the first   SH C&T, Hasto Wibowo welcomed this   The performance of this subsidiary of
       quarter of Financial Year 2021-22 as compared  collaboration. Pertamina since 2020 has   Pertamina under the auspices of Subholding
       to Rs 88,939 crores in corresponding quarter   produced MFO low sulfur which complies   Upstream Pertamina cannot be separated
       of Financial Year 2020-21. The Net Profit for   with IMO Regulations with a maximum   from the strength of its investment in rigs
       the quarter ended 30th June 2021 is higher at   sulfur limit of 0.5%.    and equipment. PDSI has 47 rigs consisting
       Rs 5,941 crores as compared to Rs 1,911 crores   “With the potential of the low sulfur MFO   of 45 land rigs and 2 marine rigs of several
       during the corresponding quarter of previous   Market in Merak estimated at 54 million   types, namely mechanical, electrical, cyber
       financial year mainly on account of inventory   USD/year, the spirit of this program must be   conventional, cyber skidding, and cyber
       gains and better petrochemical margins   started immediately, it is hoped that in the   walking.
       during current period.              next 6-12 months there will be many ocean   Of the 47 PDSI rigs, six rigs are PDSI
         IndianOil Chairman, Mr. S.M. Vaidya,   going ships bunkering in the Sunda Strait,”   investments for the year 2020/2021. Four rigs
       said, “IndianOil sold 20.325 million tonnes   said Hasto.                are land rigs, two are marine rigs.
       of products, including exports, during the   Hasto continued, this MFO bunkering   Regarding marine rigs, both are cyber-type
       first quarter of financial year 2021-22. Our   business cooperation is sure to maximize   rigs. The development of cyber technology on
       refining throughput for Q1 2021-22 is 16.719   economic potential through Marine Fuel   the rig is fully carried out by PDSI officers and
       million tonnes and the throughput of the   Bunkering services at various strategic ports   is specifically designed for workovers at PHE
       Corporation’s countrywide pipelines network   in Indonesia. In addition, this synergy will   OSES.
       is 19.875 million tonnes during the same   further improve the profile of Indonesian   In addition to the type, the capacity of the
       period. The gross refining margin (GRM)   ports as well as strengthen Indonesia’s energy   47 rigs also varies according to the type of
       during the first quarter of FY 2021-22 is $6.58   posture, especially the provision of 180   service and services of PDSI, starting from
       per bbl as compared to $(1.98) per bbl in   centistockes (cSt) Low Sulfur MFO Vessel   250-750 HP (horse power), 1000 HP, 1500 HP,
       corresponding quarter of previous financial   Fuel.                      and 2000 HP.
       year. The core GRM for current period after   PERTAMINA, August 5, 2021  PERTAMINA, August 5, 2021
       offsetting inventory loss/ gain comes to $2.24
       per bbl.”                           PDSI fleet rig ready to              Jadestone debuts as new
       IOC, July 30, 2021
                                           support 2030 production              upstream investor and
                                           target                               operator in Malaysia
       SOUTHEAST ASIA
       Pertamina, Krakatau Port            Rig fleet whose technology is adapted to   Jadestone Energy Holdings Ltd, a subsidiary
                                           market needs is the key for PDSI to maintain
                                                                                of Singapore-based Jadestone Energy
       establish low sulfur MFO            its existence and prove its resilience, even   plc (Jadestone) has become the latest
                                           during the pandemic which caused a triple
                                                                                upstream investor in Malaysia through
       bunkering business                  shock for upstream oil and gas activities.  its acquisition of SapuraOMV Upstream
                                                                                (PM) Inc (SapuraOMV PM), a subsidiary
                                              For the upstream oil and gas industry,
       Pertamina Patra Niaga, Sub Holding   drilling is the core of production. Even oil   of SapuraOMV Upstream Sdn Bhd
       Commercial & Trading PT Pertamina   and gas blocks with great potential tend to be   (SapuraOMV).
                                                                                  SapuraOMV PM holds participating
                                                                                interests in producing assets located offshore
                                                                                Peninsular Malaysia, namely the AAKBNLP,
                                                                                PM318, PM323 and PM329 Production
                                                                                Sharing Contracts (PSC). The company is the
                                                                                operator of PM323 and PM329 PSCs.
                                                                                  Jadestone is listed on the Alternative
                                                                                Investment Market (AIM) of the London
                                                                                Stock Exchange and has operatorship
                                                                                experience in oil and gas fields across the
                                                                                Asia-Pacific region.
                                                                                  PETRONAS Senior Vice President of
                                                                                Malaysia Petroleum Management, Mohamed
                                                                                Firouz Asnan said, “We welcome Jadestone’s
                                                                                debut in Malaysia’s upstream sector. This is a
                                                                                testament that the country remains attractive
                                                                                with diverse investment opportunities



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