Papua LNG seals deal
Agreement with Papuan New Guinean state is an important milestone for an unusual project
Total and its partners, ExxonMobil and Australian-listed independent Oil Search, signed a gas agreement in April with host country Papua New Guinea, aimed at defining the fiscal framework for the Papua LNG Project. This gas agreement allows the partners to start the front-end engineering design (FEED) study, ahead of a planned final investment decision (FID) in 2020. Papua LNG is, in simple terms, a 5.4mn t/yr plant, consisting of two trains of 2.7mn t/yr each. However, as shown in Fig1, it is slightly more complicated than that. It will share facilities with ExxonMobil's PNG LNG plant at Caution Bay, benefitting "from the brownfield synergies with existing liquefaction facilities", accordin
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