Island Chef winner - Chef Mena & teamWhat do you get when you cross hit TV shows ‘Master Chef’ and ‘Survivor’ with a good dose of PNG creativity and humor on a tiny gold mining island cut off from the rest of the world in the midst of a pandemic? Why, ‘Island Chef’ of course!‘Island Chef’ is the brainchild of PNG catering and camp management company, ...

ExxonMobil PNG as operator of PNG LNG, together with Chiyoda Oceania Pty Ltd, have supported the Central Province Health Authorities (CPHA) long-term healthcare preparedness efforts with a donation of triage tents, infra-red thermometers and surgical masks. In response to COVID-19, CPHA is looking at ways to bolster their healthcare services by ensuring w...

In line with improving accessibility and services to its members, Papua New Guinea’s largest superannuation provider, NASFUND, today opened its third Client Service Centre in Waigani, Port Moresby. Port Moresby & Central Province host over 60% of NASFUND’s membership base. Located at Lakatoi Haus, this Centre provides easy access for members in Waigan...

NASFUND, is pleased to announce the appointment of Anne Wilson to the role of Chief Officer Member Services (COMS). Anne is no stranger to the Superannuation Industry. Since July 2017 she was Head of Superannuation Services at the Aon Master Trust, another Approved Superannuation Fund in PNG. Prior to this, she was head of the AonHewitt Fund Administratio...

IN-VR is organising the Global E&P Summit on July 2nd, taking place completely online. For the first time ever, ​16 national oil & gas ministries, regulators and NOCs are gathering online to ​promote their available E&P global opportunities to IOCs and service providers from all over the world. The biggest online E&P event of the year Meet...

NCS Chef, Helen Marum has worked at NCS for over 13 years and is hoping to be crowned “Island Chef 2020”What do you get when you cross hit TV shows ‘Master Chef’ and ‘Survivor’ with a good dose of PNG creativity and humor on a tiny gold mining island cut off from the rest of the world in the midst of a pandemic? Why, ‘Island Chef’ of course!‘Island Chef’ ...

World class training on Swire Pacific Offshore vessels is providing Pacific Towing’s Melanesian mariners with professional development opportunities of a lifetime. Moreover, a partnership with Swire Emergency Response is enabling a world class oil spill response service in the region.Swire Pacific Offshore (SPO) and Pacific Towing (PacTow) are both part o...

Pacific Towing reached an important safety milestone on 14 May, having achieved 4 Years Lost Time Injury (LTI) Free. The marine services provider attributes its safety success to an ongoing and considerable investment in high quality training and rigorous safety management systems and processes.A Lost Time Injury (LTI) is an injury sustained by an employ...

IN-VR is organising the ​Timor-Leste Oil & Gas Energy Online Summit, taking place completely online and sponsored by ​SundaGas and ​Pacific Towing​. ​All the profits will be donated to charity supporting their initiative to provide masks, gloves and necessities to groups in need. The online summit will take place on July 9th 2020, focus...

Executive Director of ExxonMobil PNG Keith Killian (right), presents boxes of PPE to Department of Health Secretary Dr Paison Dakulala. ExxonMobil PNG donated Personal Protective Equipment to the National Department of Health yesterday in its effort to further support the fight against COVID-19."The Safety of our workforce, their families, and the communi...

Pacific Towing continues to safely crew and despatch its vessels throughout South East Asia and Oceania despite COVID-19. Evidence of the company’s unthwarted capacity in the region is its recent successful towage of a vessel and crane barge to Guam. The towage project was significant not just because it occurred in the midst of the region’s COVID-19 indu...

Studying abroad is all exciting but can also be very expensive and concerning for parents whose children will be miles away for months on end in a foreign country.Is this the right school for me or for my child? Is the fee within our budget and do they provide quality? Who will provide support and help settle in? What about accommodation and meals? What o...

Pacific Towing (PacTow) is using its fleet of strategically positioned vessels and 200+ staff to help keep vital food and medical supplies coming in to its home country, Papua New Guinea (PNG). The company also has capacity to further support PNG’s various marine sectors, all key contributors to the economy. Moreover, with COVID-19 severely hampering mari...

‘Home-base’, were the words Company Director of Pacific Industries Limited, Ashlon Chue, chose to describe Papua New Guinea and the company’s operations.He said the Chue family, having come to PNG in the early 1900’s have ‘always maintained the philosophy of Papua New Guinea as home-base’.“So we have always seen the positive side of investing in PNG and c...

Papua New Guinea’s leading rice manufacturer and distributer, Trukai Industries Limited has reached a significant milestone as it reaches its 50thanniversary in PNG.From its humble beginnings in Lae, Morobe Province, on February 17, 1970, the company has now grown to be a leading household name in PNG with over 1,000 employees and 12 distribution centres ...

Papua New Guinea on Friday called off negotiations with Exxon Mobil regarding the P’nyang gas project, casting a shadow on a $13 billion plan to double the country’s gas exports by 2024.The government said Exxon had refused to budge on the financial terms for developing the gas field and failed to come up with an offer it could accept.The P’nyang field wa...

TEN legislative amendments to the Papua LNG project gas agreement were passed during the final quarter of 2019, according to Oil Search Ltd. The company, a partner in the project, noted in its final quarter report that it was while detailed discussions took place between PRL 3 (P’nyang) joint venture and the Government on the terms for the P’nyang field d...

A growing number of PNG businesses are enjoying the benefits of sourcing a diverse array of quality products direct from Chinese factories. Sourcing direct, as opposed to via retailers and wholesalers, cuts out expensive middlemen, saving businesses thousands and making them more competitive. Sourcing from the manufacturing mecca of China provides busines...

Pacific Towing, the region’s dominant marine services provider, has introduced an in-water Hull Cleaning service. A first for PNG and indeed Melanesia, this crucial service will save shipping companies potentially hundreds of thousands of kina. Hull cleaning is necessary when there is a build-up of marine fouling such as barnacles or tubeworm. It is a vit...

The Papua New Guinea government has signalled that negotiations with ExxonMobil on the terms of a $20 billion LNG expansion are inching towards a resolution, but has made it clear it won't back down on a deadline for the development of a major gas field.Talks between the government's negotiating team and Exxon are understood to be taking place in Sydney t...

Papua New Guinea’s fuel and energy supplier Puma Energy said both its domestic and international fuel and energy supply lines will not be affected with the transition from diesel to liquefied natural gas (LNG) power generation when Niupower and Dirio projects come online. In a response to queries from Post Courier about Niupower and Dirio fuel to gas tran...

Western Province political leaders are considering a ‘no gas deal’ position for the soon to be concluded P’nyang LNG Gas Agreement if their provincial interests are not captured in the final negotiated terms. The leaders have also declared a no deal position until proposed amendments to the Oil and Gas Act 1998 are made. But these are contrary to the stat...

PAPUA New Guinea is not immune to the world market and will be impacted as a result of tensions between the United States (US) and Iran, which has caused a spike in oil prices, says an executive. Puma Energy PNG Ltd country general manager and director Hulala Tokome said the company had seen an increase in crude oil prices as a direct result of the rift b...

About 200 companies have shown interest in the Gulf of Papua Pasca A gas project. This was after developer Twinza put out an expression of interest for companies to provide services to the project. Both local and foreign owned companies have shown interest to provide services during the construction and operation of the country’s first ever offshore gas p...