Saya ambil cuplikan paragraph dari 'Ismail Hasan, 2004, The Young Turks of Petronas, p. 59-60', yang menyebutkan tentang Cepu di tahun 1975 (mumpung masih hangat membahas Cepu). Buku tersebut mengisahkan tentang suatu team yang dibentuk oleh Petronas pada awal-awal masa Petronas berdiri untuk mencari formula yang terbaik untuk system PSC-nya. Teamnya mereka namakan ‘Task Force’, yang anggotanya berjumlah 7 orang, dan karena mereka rata-rata berumur dibawah tiga-puluhan maka mereka disebut sebagai The Young Turks of Petronas. Cuplikannya ada dibawah:
Pertamina’s PSC had not addressed the sharing of the windfall profits but barring the outdated sharing ratios, the other schemes established within the PSC notably the contractual relationship with oil companies were very noble and nationalistic. The Task Force decided to emulate accordingly and they then had the Pertamina PSC’s financial module for benchmarking. As and when the team was down in Jakarta for consultation with Pertamina they were treated well. Pertamina then was flourishing. It built its own all-weather roads leading to its complexes in remote areas all over Indonesia and that was where the team usually stayed when visiting outside Jakarta, courtesy of Pertamina. We were flown in their helicopters from end to end, seeing and learning how things were actually done on site and the logistics involved in managing each of the producing oil field. The Task Force always had the impression that all the technical know-how and capability to find and extract petroleum resources were exclusively in the hands of multinational oil companies , until they visited Pertamina’s Cepu and Calichap onshore oil fields in Java. There, we were surprised to see that Pertamina had been operating the oil wells in the middle of the paddy fields for a few years already, entirely on their own and without any help from the multinationals. Their crude oil production was very small and sophisticated instrumentations were rarely seen, but they did produce crude oil without taking away the paddy fields from the original owners except for the small area surrounding the wellhead. Operational discipline was very high and the crude oil was transported out without causing any undue difficulties to the farmers tending to their rice crops. That scene changed the Task Force’s mindset about what Petronas could be capable of. Seperti semangat The Young Turks of Petronas, Semoga semangat muda dan pasukan muda dari Pertamina bisa mengembalikan kembali kejayaan Pertamina dan Indonesia sebagai super power di bisnis Perminyakan Asia. Amin. Salam, Teguh
