Photo: The PNG and JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration delegations after their meeting in Tokyo. Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has encouraged major Japanese company JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration, which already has a 4.7 per cent stake in the PNG LNG Project, to also participate in upstream and downstream of Papua LNG (Gulf), P’nyang LNG (Weste...

Photo: PM Marape and the PNG delegation (left) meeting with Sojitz Corporation President and CEO Masayoshi Fujimoto and his team in Tokyo. Prime Minister Hon. James Marape has invited leading Japanese company Sojitz Corporation into the upstream and downstream processing of liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Papua New Guinea. He made the invitation to S...

Photo: Oil Search Santos advises it has received a binding conditional offer from Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited (Kumul) to acquire a 5 per cent project interest in PNG LNG for asset value of US$1.4 billion, including a proportionate share of project finance debt of approximately US$0.3 billion (the Offer). Kumul is Papua New Guinea’s national oil...

The Pasca A offshore gas project in the Gulf of Papua will focus to help transform the PNG energy sector and to boost sustainable growth in the country. Twinza Oil (PNG) Limited chairman, Stephen Quantrill said when in full production, the Pasca A Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) project’s landed prices will be lower than the current LPG imports. He sa...

Photo credit: PNG Energy Summit - Wayne Kasou Santos has paid more than K1.21 billion in corporate tax since the merger, despite the current focus of considerable discussion on multinational corporations in the extractive industry to pay their taxes. A further K43.2million was also paid as direct taxes as an operator in the country. At the recent...

By 2032, it is anticipated that the Papua Liquefied Natural Gas project (Papua LNG) would produce an additional 2–3 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas annually. Given that Total Energies announced FEED (front-end engineering and design) for the Papua LNG Project in July of this year, Minister for Petroleum and Energy Kerenga Kua believes that PNG ...

Craig Schulz has been appointed as Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited's new chief operating officer, filling a long-standing vacancy. According to managing director Wapu Sonk, it is essential that they have senior technical management personnel who are sufficient and properly qualified given their current level of operations in the petroleum sector, in n...

Photo credit: PNG Chamber of Mines and Petroleum - Stephen Quantrill The Pasca A gas project's developer, Twinza, is prepared to collaborate with regional members of parliament to identify and reap the community advantages of the Pasca Development project. Stephen Quantrill, the executive chairman of Twinza, stated as much at a briefing for the PNG ...

According to Peter Laden, managing director of ExxonMobil PNG Ltd, there are major sources of LNG (liquefied natural gas) supplies outside of Papua New Guinea (PNG). According to Laden, PNG presently accounts for 2% of the market for LNG, which produces eight to nine million tonnes annually. “In the future, even after Papua LNG, we will still repres...

Photo credit: TotalEnergies  According to an official, Papua New Guinea would gain K86 billion from the Papua LNG project throughout its lifetime. Jean-Marc Noiray, managing director of Total Energies PNG Ltd, made the comments at the induction ceremony for new lawmakers in Port Moresby. He said this when acknowledging the country’s laws and regulat...

The Pasca A offshore gas project in Gulf will go ahead once the gas agreement is signed and the petroleum development licence (PDL) is approved, says developer Twinza. Robert Gard, the chief executive officer of Twinza, made the statement while attending the recent induction ceremony for the 11th National Parliament in Port Moresby. “We are awaiting...

The Pasca A project's discussions will resume, according to Prime Minister James Marape.  Marape said that they would start dialogue with them after negotiations had been stalled for months. “I assure resources licence holders for Wafi-Golpu, Pynyang, Papua, Pasca A, and Porgera that to enjoy the benefits of the current regime, we need to work toget...

Photo credit: Jason Reed Santos today announced its half-year results for 2022, reporting record free cash flow of US$1.7 billion and underlying profit of US$1.3 billion. The results reflect significantly higher oil and LNG prices compared to the corresponding period due to stronger global energy demand combined with a higher interest in PNG LNG follow...

Commenting on the recent announcement by TotalEnergies that the Papua LNG joint venture will launch the first phase of front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies for upstream production facilities on the 5.4 Mt/year LNG project that they are operator of,  Kumul Petroleum managing director Wapu Sonk was congratulatory. He said, “As a potential co-v...

Photo credit: TotalEnergies TotalEnergies, as operator, has announced the decision of the Papua LNG joint venture to launch the first phase of front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies for the Papua LNG project's upstream production facilities. In parallel, studies for the downstream liquefaction facilities are progressing in line with the ove...

Photo: One of Oilmin’s Campsites in PNG In Papua New Guinea, Field Service providers are constantly challenged to adapt their operations based on the particular conditions encountered at the Project area of operations. A company which has been in the business of providing these services to the oil, gas and mining sectors for the past 30 years is O.M...