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AKARTA: Pertamina EP, the upstream business unit of state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina, has discovered new gas reserves in the PAFE Pagardewa area of South Sumatra.

The company announced Monday that the Lavatera-1 exploration well in the area could produce 5.7 million standard cubic feet per day (mmscfd) of gas.

“We are very happy with the discovery. It has provided a significant contribution to our efforts in optimizing oil and gas production and discovering new reserves,” Pertamina EP president director Syamsu Alam said in a press statement.

The company planned to directly prepare a put on production (POP) scheme for the Lavatera-1 well in early 2013 to allow the well to produce 3 mmscfd, he reported. He added that the same POP scheme had also been implemented for seven other wells in Pagardewa, Tasim and Prabumenang with combined production of 17 mmscfd of gas and 450 barrels of condensate per day (bpd).

“The gas will all be supplied to [state gas distributor] PT PGN for the South Sumatra-West Java [SSWJ] pipeline,” Syamsu said.