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As mandated by the government, the Special Task Force for Upstream Oil and Gas Business Activities in the Republic of Indonesia (known as SKK Migas) has responsibility for maintaining the national oil and gas production facilities as part of its main function in terms of maximizing national oil and gas production. Currently, SKK Migas is managing more than 60 oil and gas production companies (PSC Companies) under Production Sharing Contracts (PSC), operating all over Indonesia. These PSC Companies operate a very large number of production facilities, but ownership remains with the nation, including data related to the facilities. The legacy manual system cannot manage the information and the many issues related to maintenance activities of all these facilities. Therefore, a computer-based information system is needed to become the core in supporting the business or organizational decision-making activities related to the main responsibility of controlling and supervising the operators of the production facilities. This paper highlights the national-scale maintenance database management system built by the authors to support business and organizational decision-making activities. This system has been built in an efficient and customizable manner, by using common software such as Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Access Database, and empowering the existing human resources. The system has fulfilled expectations, with customable features, and avoided the purchase of commercially available specialized software, which offers limited features and expensive pricing. Although this software tool offers convenience, a lot of work is still required to improve the prototype. However,by developing this system, at least a short-term powerful solution has been provided that lays the foundation for the future development of a more established system. In other words, there is no need to wait for the optimum software tools to manage the job. One can start from simple tools and improve continuously. Keywords: national scale production facilities, maintenance decision support system, simple tools, efficient and customable manner, current software tools