Test started on LNG gas pipeline

 The PNG LNG project started test driving its pipeline last September with a flow of gas from the oilfields in Kutubu, Southern Highlands, to the LNG processing plant outside Port Moresby.

This gas was only for purposes of testing the pipline and the capabilities of the plant.

The offshore pipeline between Omati River delta in Gulf and Port Moresby, while the onshore component runs from Omati to Kutubu, with the final stretch being that between Kutubu and the Hides gas conditioning plant in Hela.

Initial supply for the PNG LNG Project will come from four major well pads in the Hides area of Hela.

 The feeder lines are 22-inch that comes from the well pads to the Hides gas conditioning plant, and will import gas, condensate, water, and impurities.

It gets processed and gets separated, with condensate in an eight-inch and gas in a 32-inch that will flow on to Port Moresby for export.

“We will have a fibre optic cable as well. The fibre optic cable follows the pipeline all the way to Port Moresby,” ExxonMobil PNG Ltd’s pipe and infrastructure manager Vincent Giorgi said.