The Regent of Blora Confesses to the President, Want Justice for Cepu Block Oil and Gas DBH

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INFOKU,BLORA - The struggle of the Blora Regency Government to obtain profit sharing funds (DBH) for oil and gas (oil and gas) from the Cepu Block will never stop. Regent Djoko Nugroho has confided about the problem of unfairness in the Cepu Block oil and gas DBH to the President and hopes to be summoned by Joko Widodo (Jokowi) regarding the Cepu Block DBH issue. 

The Regent stated that during the president's working visit to Blora last week, he had time to complain about the unfair distribution of the Cepu Block DBH.

President Jokowi briefs Blora Regent Djoko Nugroho (red batik) 

According to him, Blora, which enters the Cepu Block area, does not get DBH from its oil production in the oil and gas field operated by ExxonMobil Cepu Limited (EMCL). Meanwhile, other regencies in the East Java region received a share of the Cepu Block DBH. Receiving such an explanation, he said, President Jokowi nodded his head. 

“I hope the president will call me to discuss the oil and gas DBH for the Cepu Block. Because I previously gave an explanation during a working visit in Blora,'' he said, last Thursday (12/3). 

The Regent admitted that Blora did not get the Cepu Block DBH because it was constrained by the prevailing laws and regulations.

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The law states that oil and gas DBH is given to oil and gas producing districts, provinces where oil and gas producing districts are located and districts and cities that are in the same province as oil and gas producing areas. However, he stressed that such a provision was very unfair.

The calculation should not be based on the mouth of the well in the area where the exploitation and production of oil and gas is carried out. But based on the existence of the oil and gas block.

“The area of ​​Blora and Bojonegoro is only limited by Bengawan Solo. Parts of the Blora and Bojonegoro areas are both included in the Cepu Block area.   Blora should get the Cepu Block oil and gas DBH as well,'' he said. 

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He emphasized that the struggle to obtain the Cepu Block oil and gas DBH was not meant to reduce the share of oil and gas DBH that Bojonegoro received every year. 

But to get a separate share, so the concern that the Cepu Block oil and gas DBH received by Bojonegoro will be reduced if Blora also gets DBH is unreasonable. 

“I told Bojonegoro not to worry. We only demand the right to get oil and gas DBH Cepu Block, not reduce DBH for Bojonegoro,'' he said. 

As is known, the Cepu Block oil exploitation is currently carried out in the Bojonegoro area.

The well has produced around 40,000 barrels of oil per day from the targeted peak production of 160,000 barrels per day.

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From this oil production, Bojonegoro gets more than Rp 300 billion of oil and gas DBH from the Cepu Block every year.

This number will increase if the Cepu Block's peak oil production has been carried out. The Cepu Block oil and gas DBH was also given to the East Java Provincial Government as well as districts and cities in East Java. 

Meanwhile, Blora did not get the Cepu Block oil and gas DBH at all or zero rupiah. It's just that from other oil production in the Blora area, Blora Regency in 2014 obtained a DBH of Rp 8 billion. (Endah/Agung)

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