| Saving Gas Procurement Semester 2010 Reaches USD 560 Billion |
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| Thursday, 12 August 2010 09:58 | |||||||
Page 1 of 2 JAKARTA. The cost savings that have been done by the Consultative Forum on Procurement of Goods and Services for all contractors working area of cooperation contracts (KKKS) in first half of year 2010 reached U.S. $ 60.6 million (about USD 560 Billion). The details, joint procurement in the area first, namely Natuna, Central Sumatra, South Sumatra, and the Offshore North West Java (ONWJ), of U.S. 14.65 USD million (about USD 135 Billion). Meanwhile, joint procurement savings in the region II, namely East Java and East Kalimantan worth U.S. $ 26.50 million (about USD 245 Billion). Plus, the savings through the optimization of asset utilization KKKS Used material transfer and utilization of materials from areas I and II amounted to U.S. $ 19.45 (about USD 180 Billion). "The efficiency is nearly equal in value to the savings period in 2009 which reached U.S. $ 61.93 million or about USD 575 Billion. That is, the total savings in 2010 could be much larger than last year, "said Chief Public Relation Division, Security, and Formality, Executive Agency for Upstream Oil and Gas (BPMIGAS), Agus Suryono in Jakarta, Wednesday (11 / 8). Last year, the savings in the region I for U.S. $ 20.22 million (about USD 188 Billion), region II, as much as U.S. $ 15.20 million (about USD 141 Billion), and the empowerment of the material amounted to U.S. $ 26.51 (approx. USD 246 billion). Areas of cooperation between KKKS which is already running, among other things, the use of warehouse and facilities, sea and air transportation, joint operation of three-dimensional seismic investigation, as well as with the use of contracts for drilling and workover rigs. Agus said that for region I, has made the signing of a memorandum of understanding related to centralized databases and integrated partners online among KKKS, as well as the issuance of a replacement certificate of administrative documents. "This cooperation for effectiveness and efficiency of administrative processes in the procurement of goods and services KKKS environment," he said. Acceleration time of procurement procedures, he said, can be realized given that there are no repeated every KKKS prequalification for the same qualifying group and similar jobs. By saving time, indirectly it can be said has no administrative cost savings. "This step is very helpful in the smooth operation of upstream oil and gas production target," said Agus. He added that the forum procurement of goods and services, is not only helpful in saving time and cost. Forum proven to cultivate local entrepreneurs to participate more in the upstream oil and gas operations. "Cooperation between KKKS, providers of goods and services, as well as national banks also rose," he said. Currently, the forum has existed six procurement of goods and services in all regions of Indonesia, namely East Kalimantan, East Java, Central Sumatra, South Sumatra, Natuna, and ONWJ. In the near future will be set up similar forums for the territory of Papua and Maluku. www.tenderoffer.biz
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