Oil Search, the company with LNG stakes in Papua New Guinea and oil assets in the North Slope of Alaska, posted a 37 percent increase in fourth-quarter revenues over the previous three months as prices recovered.
The Papua New Guinea LNG expansion proposal to more than double current output could proceed with the single Papua Gas Agreement signed with the Government and consist of two new processing Trains instead of three Trains.
Oil Search, the Australian-listed company based in Papua New Guinea, said that discussions were continuing between PNG LNG plant operator ExxonMobil and the Oceania nation’s government on the LNG expansion project as cargo deliveries increased in the third quarter.
China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., also known as Sinopec, is in talks to buy more liquefied natural gas from Papua New Guinea from existing production and from plans by the Oceania nation to more than double its output to over 20 million tonnes per annum.
The Papua New Guinea LNG plant, operated by ExxonMobil Corp. under a joint venture with several other companies and the government, has signed a medium-term sales agreement to supply Chinese import terminals owned by PetroChina.