Papua New Guinea’s nationwide petroleum and power firm Kumul Petroleum Holdings Restricted has completed its seismic program on its operated Kimu and Barikewa licenses.
“On Wednesday, March 26, we shot the final gap on a seismic line within the Kimu license, and camp demobilization has begun. That is the fruits of a seismic program we now have been enterprise in our two petroleum retention licenses”, Wapu Sonk, Kumul Petroleum’s managing director, stated. “The aim of this seismic work is to assemble extra geological info on the petroleum sources already found in these two licenses, to extend the volumes of oil and fuel reserves. The second goal is to determine and agency up siting of some delineation wells and exploration targets”.
Sonk stated the seismic marketing campaign had been carried out by contractor OilMin Holdings and had taken roughly six months. He famous that seismic line slicing is a labor-intensive exercise and the six seismic traces required the employment of 477 native individuals in distant areas of the Gulf and Western provinces.
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The corporate anticipates 6 months for analyzing and incorporating seismic information into its geological fashions.
“Kumul Petroleum and OilMin have labored intently with regionally impacted communities and though seismic work solely requires firm presence in an space for a comparatively quick time, help has been supplied to native main faculties at Kaiam and Kumusi. With out group assist this fieldwork wouldn’t have been potential”, Sonk stated.
Sonk stated Kumul Petroleum is investing closely to evaluate and develop its oil and fuel licenses, aiming to create economically viable improvement plans. He highlighted Kumul Petroleum’s direct involvement in exploring and probably commercializing beforehand deemed unviable fuel sources in Papua New Guinea.
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