Papua New Guinea LNG Terminal (Exxon)
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Papua New Guinea LNG Terminal (Exxon), also known as PNG LNG, is an LNG terminal in National Capital District, Papua New Guinea.
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Location
The LNG Plant is located 20 kilometres northwest of Port Moresby, at Caution Bay on the south coast of PNG’s Central Province.
Project Details
- Owner:
- Parent: ExxonMobil (33.20%), Oil Search (29%), Santos (13.53%), Nippon Oil (2.34%), Marubeni (2.34%), PNG Government (19.58%)
- Location: Port Moresby, National Capital District, Papua New Guinea
- Coordinates: -9.33862, 147.01825 (exact)
- Capacity: 6.6 mtpa, 0.95 bcfd
- Additional Proposed Capacity: 3.3 mtpa, 0.78 bcfd
- Status: Operating
- Type: Export
- Start Year: Trains 1-2: 2014; Train 3: 2023
Note: mtpa = million tonnes per year; bcfd = billion cubic feet per day
Background
The Papua New Guinea liquefied natural gas (LNG) project was constructed at a cost of US$19 billion. The project involves extracting natural gas from the Papua New Guinea highlands, where it is processed before being sent via some 700 kilometres of pipeline to the PNG LNG plant in Port Moresby. The gas is then liquefied and transferred into ships for sale offshore. Construction for the project began in 2010, and the first gas shipment was made in May 2014.[1]
The terminal has two trains with a capacity of 6.6 mtpa.[2]
According to ExxonMobil's InterOil, there is enough gas between the Elk-Antelope and P’nyang gas fields in Papua New Guinea to justify three LNG trains by 2023 to 2025, in addition to the existing two trains at PNG LNG.[3]
Opposition
Landowners and communities displaced by the project were promised benefits such as income streams and infrastructure development. Few of these promises have been fulfilled, however; for example, the township of Komo contains a newly-built hospital building that has no beds, staff, or fuel for the building's generator.[1]
As a result, leaders of area communities organised to blockade the LNG facility by shutting off gas taps at several wells in August of 2016. Security guards attempted to stop the blockade, however, the leaders were armed. They then entered the plant site, locked site gates, and demanded the government honour original project agreements. Armed unrest over the project's failure to deliver agreed-upon benefits to the local population is ongoing.[1]
In January 2019 it was reported that royalty payments from the project to local residents have been much smaller than had been promised by the government.[4]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Papua New Guinea gets a dose of resource curse as ExxonMobil's natural gas project foments unrest," ABC News, March 9, 2017
- ↑ "PNG Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project, Papua New Guinea," Hydrocarbons-Technology, accessed Aug 2017
- ↑ Dan Murtaugh and Sharon Cho, "PNG Government Prefers Exxon, Total Pursue 2nd LNG Project," Bloomberg, September 21, 2016
- ↑ In Papua New Guinea, Exxon's giant LNG project fuels frustration, Reuters, Jan. 16, 2019
