Papua New Guinea LNG Project
The Papua New Guinea LNG project ("PNG LNG" for short) is used for the extraction, separation and purification, transportation and finally the liquefaction and shipping of natural gas in Papua New Guinea . Construction work began in 2010 and the first shipment of liquefied gas took place in 2014.
Project description
The planned cost of the project is 16 billion Australian dollars . Project partners are ExxonMobil from the USA and the listed Oil Search Ltd. from Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. The government of Papua New Guinea has a 17.6 percent stake in Oil Search. Marketing is to be carried out by ExxonMobil.
According to a government publication, the Final Investment Decision (FID) was made on December 8, 2009. The project will produce and sell up to 6.6 million tons of gas annually for 30 years. The main markets will be Japan and China.
The income from this is intended to improve living conditions in the underdeveloped country. To this end, a conference was held in Kokopo in 2009 on the distribution of funds between the state, province, local administration and small farmers. Especially the farmers who have lost fields in the course of the construction work are dependent on a share of the proceeds. But there are complaints about a lack of justice.
Project handling
The entire project consists of four different sub-projects:
At twelve different holes in the Hides-, Angore- and Juha-fields, the gas is promoted and via a conduit system for further processing in 60-km-long 14-inch pipes according Hides passed. There the gas is cleaned and the gas and condensate are separated. The gas production of the three fields amounts to 80% of the total volume. The cleaned gas will be piped through a 300 km long onshore pipeline to the sea and then another 415 km under the ocean to Port Moresby to a liquefaction and loading station to be built there.
The liquid and solid components that arise during the conveyance are carried in an 8-inch pipe to Hides for further treatment. From Hides, the condensate is conveyed over 100 km to Kutubu , where it is incorporated into the oil transport process.
Another 20 percent of the total gas comes from the already existing and producing oil fields, the Kutubu oil field on Lake Kutubu , the Agogo, Moran and Gobe oil fields. Up to now they were mostly "waste products" and were flared.
This part of the project includes the construction and commissioning of the facilities for storage, liquefaction and loading of the gas on appropriately equipped tankers as LNG (liquefied natural gas) west of Port Moresby , the capital of the country.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Celine Rouzet: Gas Rush in Papua New Guinea, in: Le Monde diplomatique, January 2013, p. 14, accessed on January 20, 2013
- ↑ Celine Rouzet: Gas Rush in Papua New Guinea, in: Le Monde diplomatique, January 2013, p. 14, accessed on January 20, 2013
- ↑ Information on oilsearch.com.pg ( Memento of the original dated November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 28, 2010
- ↑ information on ccop.or.th . Retrieved November 28, 2010
