Blue Water Shipping has established itself as a key logistics provider to Papua New Guinea’s resources sector. Its Country Manager Nick Walsh explains how.
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In this exclusive interview, Arnaud Berthet, Managing Director of TotalEnergies EP PNG, provides an update on key components of the Papua LNG project to Business Advantage PNG, and provides clarity around the expected timeline to a final investment decision.
Papua New Guinea’s National Executive Council recently approved the framework for the ‘most significant’ fiscal and regulatory reform since independence, Petroleum Minister Jimmy Maladina confirmed at the 2025 PNG Petroleum & Energy Conference in Port Moresby earlier this month. Business Advantage PNG outlines the key details of this new policy.
Gavin Wendt, Founding Director and Senior Resource Analyst for MineLife, discusses the positive outlook for Papua New Guinea’s two key export metals, copper and gold.
Sarimu Kanu, Managing Director of Kumul Minerals Holdings (KMHL), sits down for an exclusive interview with Andrew Wilkins, in which he discusses Porgera, Ok Tedi and KMHL’s plans around acquisitions, stranded resources and the building of a gold refinery in PNG.
Last month, PanAust received key environmental permits connected to its Frieda River copper-gold project. It is now ramping up its work towards a special mining lease, as its project director reveals in this exclusive interview with Business Advantage PNG.
International concerns about the supply of LNG, gold and copper are making PNG a more attractive market for both buyers and investors, as Nadav Shemer Shlezinger learns from two top analysts.
After delays to key resources projects Papua LNG and Wafi-Golpu, there are signs that final investment decisions and other key milestones are drawing closer. Meanwhile, M&A activity in the sector is heating up.
Papua New Guinea is on track to become an offshore gas producer before the end of the decade, thanks to Twinza’s Pasca A project. There are also hopes of large offshore oil discoveries, with two separate drilling campaigns being planned in a prospective new offshore basin.
PEC 2025 promises opportunities for knowledge-sharing, networking and collaboration in one of the region’s most dynamic energy markets. We preview the event taking place in Port Moresby on 8 and 9 October.