As a form of commitment to keep improving safety standards in working environment, Apexindo continues to foster safe behaviour and hazard identification on site that is done through observation program. This observation, focus on safety, involves the whole crew on the site, including clients and third-party contractors. 

This program is implemented to conform with the target of Health Safety Environment (HSE), which is increasing hazard awareness, where every person on the site is able to identify all aspects of the danger or potential danger in the working environment.

The result of observation is reported by using HOC Cards (HSE Observation Cards). Cards that commonly used in offshore oil and gas companies which are designed to improve safety by modifying worker behaviour.

This observation card, address the unsafe acts or condition, safe acts or condition or nearmiss (nearly an accident) which were found by crew in daily working activities on the site, with a procedure for follow up action and reporting system.  

The amount number of cards collected, indicates the level of identifying hazards or potential hazards that may appear in the workplace.

Regarding of this, on May 2009, Apexindo Rig 8 had successfully record-breaking number of HOC Cards with 3250 cards collected. This is the biggest amount than other Apexindo rigs, which counted from January 2009. Previously, Rig 8 was also the biggest HOC Cards collector, with 2009 cards counted in March 2009.

From total of 3250 reports in May, 97% was in closed status, which means that at the beginning of this June, almost all the reports have been followed up by Apexindo HSE Department. This is a good performance to help Company achieving the target of decreasing the number of incidents and accidents on site, so that Safe Work Environment can be realized as company Quality Objectives.

This record got an acknowledgement from VICO, as respective client of Rig 8, who appreciate the Apexindo efforts in maintain the safety quality.

Indonesia’s state oil company Pertamina wants to take stakes in two key gas projects where the foreign partners are in talks with Indonesia’s government to extend existing contracts, a Pertamina official said today.

Pertamina has previously indicated it wants to expand its upstream activities to boost oil and gas production, and that it was looking at several potential oil and gas fields.

The official said these include the Mahakam Block in Kalimantan, which is currently operated by a unit of France’s Total and is one of Indonesia’s biggest gas fields, and the Madura BD field in East Java, operated by Husky Energy and China’s CNOOC.

Pertamina’s interest in those blocks comes as Southeast Asia’s biggest economy is making increasingly nationalistic noises about ownership and control of energy and mineral resources in the run-up to the 8 July presidential elections.

The Pertamina official, who declined to be quoted by name, said that Pertamina wants a stake in the Mahakam block when Total’s contract expires in 2017.

Total and Japan’s Inpex each hold 50% in the Mahakam Block, which supplies most of the gas for Indonesia’s Bontang liquefied natural gas plant.

"Pertamina wants a higher stake, if possible a majority, in Mahakam Block. The block (contract) will expire in 2017, which means that after that year, the block is owned by the government," the official told Reuters.