RI's April oil output declines

RI's April oil output declines

JAKARTA: Indonesia's crude oil and condensate production fell 0.6 percent to 1.082 million barrels a day in April compared with a month earlier, a government official said.

The amount of crude oil pumped was almost unchanged at about 961,200 barrels a day in April, Novian M. Thaib, director of exploration and production at the Energy and Mineral Resources Ministry, said in Jakarta on Monday.

Indonesia's output of condensate, a light oil produced in association with natural gas, fell because of heavy rains last month, Novian said, declining to give the exact figures. Indonesia produced 126,500 barrels a day of condensate in March.

Indonesia, Southeast Asia's biggest oil and gas producer, aims to pump about 1.125 million barrels of crude oil and condensate a day this year. -- Bloomberg