Papua New Guinea
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June 02, 2024
Mineral Resources Development Company Limited (“MRDC”) and Twinza Oil Limited (“Twinza”) have obtained all internal approvals and executed a series of binding agreements for MRDC to take an up to 50% Participating Interest in the Pasca A Development Project. Additionally, the companies agreed to cooperate in the acquisition and development of other oil and gas assets in Papua New Guinea.
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September 01, 2023
Santos has executed a binding sale agreement to deliver Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited a 2.6% participating interest in PNG LNG, for a total purchase consideration comprising cash of $576 million and the assumption of ca. $160 million of project finance debt.
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June 22, 2023
This 3D is crucial to enhancing the geological understanding of the sparsely explored offshore Gulf of Papua and developing drill ready prospects like those recently identified by a supermajor in the permit immediately adjacent to the Nanamarope 3D.
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July 21, 2022
TotalEnergies, as operator, announced the decision of the Papua LNG joint venture to launch the first phase of front-end engineering and design sudies for the Papua LNG project's upstream production facilities.
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August 03, 2021
Oceaneering International’s Integrity Management and Digital Solutions segment has won a new multi-year contract in Papua New Guinea with a major operator.
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May 06, 2021
France-based oil company Total and the government of Papa New Guinea announced the remobilization of the Papua LNG project after a year of delay caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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September 03, 2019
After months of delays and new commitments by Total SA, Papua New Guinea will honor a gas deal with the French energy giant, clearing a major hurdle for a $13 billion plan to expand the nation’s fuel exports.
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August 21, 2019
The Total SA-led liquefied natural gas joint venture in Papua New Guinea is seeking to finish a new round of negotiations with the government by the end of August, while insisting that the original agreement signed with the state in April is fair and equitable to both sides.
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July 25, 2019
Papua New Guinea’s petroleum minister said he'll recommend changes to a recent natural gas agreement with Total, a potential new hurdle for the delayed $13-billion effort to double the nation’s exports of the fuel.
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May 30, 2019
A critic of Papua New Guinea’s resource deals has been chosen as the country’s prime minister, a potential speed bump for multi-billion-dollar natural gas export projects led by Exxon Mobil Corp. and Total SA.
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May 27, 2019
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister Peter O’Neill has resigned, his Australian counterpart confirmed. The Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported he will hand over leadership to Julius Chan, citing comments at a media conference in Port Moresby.
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April 09, 2019
Total and its partners ExxonMobil and Oil Search have signed the gas agreement with the Independent State of Papua New Guinea defining the fiscal framework for the Papua LNG Project.
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January 14, 2019
The need to fill new and old gas infrastructure will see the drilling of exciting offshore prospects across Australia, Brunei, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan and Papua New Guinea.
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November 16, 2018
Total and its partners ExxonMobil and Oil Search have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Independent State of Papua New Guinea defining the key terms of the gas agreement for the Papua LNG Project.
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August 08, 2018
Santos today announced the Barikewa-3 well, located in Papua New Guinea’s (PNG) onshore Forelands region, intersected 25 m of net gas pay within the Toro and Hedinia reservoir objectives.
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February 26, 2018
Exxon Mobil has shut production platforms and a processing plant in the highlands of natural gas exporter Papua New Guinea after an earthquake struck the Pacific nation.
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January 15, 2018
ExxonMobil today announced that it encountered hydrocarbons after drilling the onshore P’nyang South-2 well, located in the Western Province of Papua New Guinea.
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May 15, 2017
Exxon Mobil Corporation has announced positive results on the Muruk-1 sidetrack well in the Papua New Guinea North Highlands, 13 mi (21 km) northwest of the Hides gas field.
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May 15, 2017
Santos has announced further positive results from the Muruk-1 exploration well, being drilled in the Papua New Guinea Highlands.
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March 06, 2017
Less than three years after it began sending one of its most precious resources overseas, Papua New Guinea’s future may be determined by how much of it stays at home.
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February 17, 2017
On the jungle-covered hills of southern Papua New Guinea, 62-year-old geologist Peter Botten is seeking to engineer a $5-billion deal that would cement the country’s emerging status as one of the world’s most lucrative gas exporters.
