PNG Highlands-Port Moresby Gas Pipeline
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The PNG Highlands-Port Moresby Gas Pipeline is an operating natural gas pipeline in Papua New Guinea.[1]
Location
The pipeline runs from the Hides gas conditioning plant in Angore, Hela to the Papua New Guinea LNG Terminal (Exxon) in Port Moresby, National Capital District.
Project details
- Operator: PNG LNG[2]
- Owner: PNG LNG[3]
- Parent company: ExxonMobil (33.2%), Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited (16.8%), Santos Limited (42.5%), ENEOS Holdings (4.7%), Government of Papua New Guinea (2.8%)[3]
- Current Capacity: 1 billion cubic feet per day[1]
- Length: 716 km[1][4]
- Diameter: 32 - 34 inches and 36 inches[2][4]
- Status: Operating[1]
- Start Year: 2014[1]
- Associated infrastructure: Papua New Guinea LNG Terminal (Exxon)
Oil Search Limited was originally an owner of the project, but it has since been acquired by Santos Limited.[5]
Opposition
Landowners and communities displaced by the pipeline and the Papua New Guinea LNG Terminal 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.[6]
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.[6]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Five facts on Exxon's remote Papua New Guinea gas project, Reuters, Mar. 5, 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "PNG LNG - About - Pipeline". PNG LNG. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "PNG LNG - About - Co-venturers". PNG LNG. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 4.0 4.1 "PNG Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Project". Hydrocarbons Technology. Retrieved September 13, 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ "Merger of Santos and Oil Search implemented". Santos. 2021-12-17. Retrieved 2022-02-28.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Papua New Guinea gets a dose of resource curse as ExxonMobil's natural gas project foments unrest," ABC News, 9 March 2017
