Natural gas project that promised economic boom leaves PNG in ‘worse state’: report

Mongabay
May 17, 2018, 6:36 am285 pts
In 2008, when a consortium led by ExxonMobil was drumming up support for a $19 billion natural gas extraction and processing project in Papua New Guinea, proponents of the development predicted it would underpin the country’s economy for decades. Production began in 2014, and now reaches approximately…

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Natural gas project that promised economic boom leaves PNG in ‘worse state’: report

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