meet Indonesia’s energy needs

For more than 90 years, Chevron has been a leading energy producer in Indonesia. We continue to explore Indonesia’s energy potential through innovation, producing petroleum production from oil fields.

Chevron’s partnership with the Indonesian community and government can be traced back to 1924, when Standard Oil Company of California (Socal), now Chevron, sent a geological expedition to the island of Sumatra. In 1941, we drilled in the Duri Field. Steamflood technology was first applied in 1985, and Duri is now the world’s largest enhanced-recovery steamflood project. In 1944, a well near the village of Minas became the largest oil field ever discovered in Southeast Asia. Production began in 1952.

For more than half a century, we have produced more than 12 billion barrels of oil from onshore fields in Riau Province and offshore fields in East Kalimantan Province.