Tensions mount at PNG gas project as landowners threaten to close plant for good

Mongabay
Jul 4, 2018, 1:55 pm83 pts
Landowners in Papua New Guinea’s Hela province have threatened to expand and escalate their blockade of a natural gas project there, after an attempt at negotiation fell through. Plant operator ExxonMobil PNG confirmed to Mongabay that all wellheads and the Angore pipeline have been shut down and personnel…

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