The French oil and gas company TotalEnergies and its partners in the Papua LNG project have launched fully integrated front-end engineering and design (FEED) studies for the Papua LNG project located near Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea. The Papua LNG project is a partnership between TotalEnergies, who is the project operator (40.1%), ExxonMobil PNG (37.1%) and Santos (22.8%) and is expected to have a liquefaction capacity of up to 6 Mt/year of LNG.
Following pre-FEED studies, Papua LNG partners have selected a concept including four electrical LNG trains (e-trains) with a total capacity of 4 Mt/year. These trains will be built within the existing liquefaction plant of PNG LNG in Caution Bay (7 Mt/year, commissioned in 2014 and operated by ExxonMobil). Papua LNG has also secured the use of 2 Mt/year of additional liquefaction capacity in the existing trains of PNG LNG. The final investment decision (FID) is scheduled for end-2023 or early 2024, with the first production anticipated by the end of 2027 or early 2028.
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