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...

There are some gaps in the Oil and Gas Act, says Twinza Oil and Gas project development manager Erik Kowa. Mr Kowa said this at the recently held Mining and Petroleum conference in Port Moresby. He said the current Oil and Gas Act is great, however, there are some gaps in there that could be improved. “Stakeholders of the chamber, we can raise this to wor...

Prime Minister Hon. James Marape, MP recently welcomed representatives of the LNG Japan Corporation to Papua New Guinea.During a recent meeting with this high-level delegation, PM Marape said PNG welcomes any investments in the Petroleum Sector and as Prime Minister; he was ready to give 100 per cent support if LNG Japan Corporation would create employmen...

Papua New Guinea’s plans to expand its liquefied natural gas (LNG) production to meet rising demand in the Asia-Pacific region was one of several topics explored by Wapu Sonk, Managing Director of Kumul Petroleum Holdings.This was in a wide-ranging interview he gave recently to Oxford Business Group’s online broadcasting channel, Global Platform.The full ...

Prime Minister James Marape has presented the amendment bill of the Oil and Gas Bill 2019 to amend the Oil and Gas Act 1998 relating to development levies. In presenting the Bill, Mr Marape said the Oil and Gas Act 1998 section 160 subsection 6 provides the payment of development levies into trust accounts for those provincial and local level governments ...

OIL Search Ltd is positioned to double production in the next six years, chief operating officer John Kurz says. Kurz attributed this to the company being the country’s largest single investor and the most active explorer which had also seen it expanding to purchasing asset in Pikku, Alaska. “We have a bright future,” he said. While providing the company’...

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