Back in September, a friend and I set out to Rumbai, Pekanbaru, Riau, Sumatera on a Pelita Air airplane to start our Practical Training in PT Chevron Pacific Indonesia (CPI). The Practical Training lasted one month from September 11 to October 10, 2007. I was very excited going to Sumatera because I haven’t been there before, but I was even more excited to be going to have my Practical Training in PT CPI. PT CPI is the biggest oil contractor in Indonesia, and is part of the multinational company Chevron, so I am eager to learn as much as I can about the oil industry, and about working at a multinational company at large.
First off though, let me tell you a bit about PT CPI. I’m just gonna copy paste this from wikipedia :
Chevron Pacific Indonesia (CPI) adalah anak perusahaan dari Chevron yang bertugas mengeksplorasi minyak yang ada di Riau. Sebelum diambil alih oleh Chevron, perusahaan ini bernama Caltex Pacific Indonesia. Para karyawan CPI ditempatkan di 4 kota di Riau yaitu Dumai, Duri, Minas dan Rumbai. CPI juga merupakan perusahaan minyak kontraktor terbesar di Indonesia, dengan produksi sudah mencapai 2 miliar barrel.
My friend and I were assigned to the Business Application Team under the IT Department. We were both stationed in the Rumbai main office, specifically in wing 4. Now, the thing about PT CPI is, that there’s basically 4 groups of camps that are pretty big in Sumatera. One is in Rumbai, which is where I was stationed at, and Rumbai is basically the main administration office for the whole PT CPI in Sumatera. The second camp is Duri, a 3 hour drive from Rumbai, and it is the main exploration site at the moment which is famous for its Duri Crude Oil. The third camp is Minas, a half hour drive from Rumbai, and it’s the other exploration site of PT CPI in Sumatera. The fourth is also a camp, although not as big as the other three, and it is located in Dumai. Dumai camp serves as a port to send off the oil to other parts of the world in huge oil tankers.
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