Caltex Indonesia output down

Caltex Indonesia output down

JAKARTA (Reuters): Indonesia's biggest oil producer PT Caltex
Pacific Indonesia said on Tuesday output was running at 660,000
barrels per day, down from a forecast 705,000 bpd, because of a
range of disruptions.

Riau operations on the island of Sumatra of the oil giant,
jointly owned by Chevron Corp and Texaco Inc, have been hit by a
series of disputes with local administrators and workers in the
past year.

"We shut three small fields six months ago because we couldn't
get in there to operate. We also have fields where we cannot go
in and drill wells or develop fields," Caltex Indonesia President
Humayun Bosha told Reuters on the sidelines of an oil conference.

Last year Caltex said it aimed to produce 740,000 bpd in 2001
but later revised that figure.