REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SURABAYA -- The oil exploitation in Banyu Urip field in the Cepu Block located in East and Central Java will bring greatest positive impacts on the local people around the operation areas, a legislator said.

"What is important is the social impact of this project where the local people in the operation areas will be happy because the project will function as a new economic driver from the oil and gas sector," Satya Widya, the deputy chairman of Commission VII on energy affairs of the House of Representatives (DPR) said here on Sunday.

The project can increase the local people's skills who initially only have low skills, the lawmaker argued.

Best oil workers can be obtained from the local areas and this will continue to provide benefit, he said after inspecting a crude lifting process from the Gagak Rimang Floating Storage and Offloading (FSO) facility.