9th Apr 2019 08:05
IRVING (Alliance News) - French energy giant Total SA announced Tuesday the company and partners ExxonMobil and Oil Search have signed the gas agreement with Papua New Guinea defining a fiscal framework for the Papua LNG project.
This agreement allows the partners to enter the front-end engineering design, or FEED, phase of study that will lead to the final investment decision in 2020.
The Papua LNG project of 5.4 million tons per annum capacity will consist of two LNG trains of 2.7 million tonnes a year capacity each and will unlock over 1 billion barrels of oil equivalent of natural gas resources.
Gas production will be operated by Total and the LNG plant will be developed with the ExxonMobil-operated PNG LNG project through an expansion of the existing plant in Caution Bay.
Since the signature of a memorandum of understanding in November 2018, the pre-FEED engineering studies and the environmental baseline survey have been completed.
Total operates the Elk and Antelope onshore fields and is the largest shareholder of the PRL-15 permit with a 31% interest, alongside partners ExxonMobil, with a 28% stake and Oil Search with an 18% stake, post the State back-in right of 23%.
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