KPHL continues to help quake areas

By GYNNIE KERO
KUMUL Petroleum Holdings Ltd managing director Wapu Sonk says the company will continue to provide items needed in the earthquake-affected areas on top of the K50 million it donated last week.
It includes the portable water desalination kit which will be useful to the people.
Sonk said KPHL officials were assessing which areas the company could further assist in.
The company wants to avoid duplicating what other donors are giving, he said.
“Our assistance is to the National Disaster Relief Fund. We are hoping the team appointed by Cabinet will work with the provincial teams and the National Disaster Office to fast-track and complement the efforts of NGOs, aid agencies, donor countries, corporate entities and individuals to provide the much-needed relief supplies and restoration of key public infrastructure and the long-term rebuilding of the infrastructure in the worst-affected provinces,” he said.
He said key petroleum projects and infrastructure in Hela, Southern Highlands and Western had been affected “but not as severely according to the initial assessments provided by ExxonMobil, Oil Search and Repsol”.
“We are hopeful that production will be restored in the next two months as indicated by ExxonMobil.”