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LNG Energy has assembled a world class portfolio of acreage in Papua New Guinea ("PNG") and holds a 100% interest in approximately 5.5 million acres of prospective oil and natural gas properties comprising five large licenses (see map).

The current licenses, renewed in 2008, have a six-year term along with new work and expenditure commitments for each Petroleum Prospecting License ("PPL").

  • PPL 319 approx. 500,000 acres
  • PPL 320 approx. 1.16 million acres
  • PPL 321 approx. 1.84 million acres
  • PPL 322 approx. 1.94 million acres
  • PRL13 approx. 40,000 acres

Recent industry activity

2009 has seen an acceleration of investment interest in PNG, culminating with two significant developments; (1) a US$15 Billion Liquefied Natural Gas development project, lead by ExxonMobil, was granted Final Investment Decision, FID, on Dec. 7th, 2009 (2) InterOil's gas discovery at Antelope #1,March 2009, achieved a World Record during testing operations of 382 MMscf/d, followed by Antelope #2, December 2009, surpassing the #1 well's record at 705 MMscf/d

The presence of large reserves of oil and gas within PNG has been known for many years, but it is only with the advent of a Liquified Natural Gas facility and burgeoning demand in Asia that the production of significant quantities of natural gas in PNG will become economically viable. We are very excited about the notable exploration successes in PNG and are looking forward to the upcoming year's opportunities.

 

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Planned activity in 2011

In 2009, LNG Energy announced an aggressive work program involving all 5.5 million acres in PNG. The 2010 the company successfully completed an exploration work program which consisted of acquiring high resolution airborne magnetic and gravity data over substantially all of LNG Energy's petroleum prospecting licenses, ("PPL"). Post acquisition magnetic and gravity data modeling, 2D seismic, identified a portfolio of exploration areas of interest for high grading and possible further investigation to maturity of a drilling inventory. In 2011, LNG Energy will conduct further seismic studies in PPL-319, where several areas of interest were identified in 2010. The 2011 seismic program will be conducted in two phases with the goal of identifying a portfolio of drillable prospects in PPL-319 and PRL-13.

This seismic program consists of approximately 60 km in the alluvial river flats in the south of the license around the Kikori River, with 40 km in the karst limestone and 10 km in the volcanic areas. This program has been planned in order to upgrade leads to drillable prospects in the western area of the license which could be similar to discoveries at Barikewa. A subsequent program is planned for the end of this year. Gama Projex Pte. Ltd., a PNG based seismic company is managing this project.

The seismic programme is in the early stages consisting of camp construction which will be followed by line cutting, the drilling of shot-holes and then recording the data. If there are no delays due to unforeseen circumstances the data should be acquired by late June or early July.

Activity in prior years

In 2009, LNG Energy engaged a specialist, third party to provide a complete range of secure, accessible data archival and management services. Presently, the LNG Energy team can promptly access this data, as needed, from anywhere in the world where internet access exists.

 

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A total of $20 million including over $11 million on the development of PRL 13 and over $2 million on PPL 319 and PPL 322 has been expended to date. LNG Energy has also recently expended an additional $2 million preparing to drill a new well on the Kuru anticline, the site of two gas discovery wells located on PRL 13. PPL 319 and PRL 13 lie on PNG's major hydrocarbon trend (see Licence Location Map) and are located only 30 km southeast of the Southeastern Gobe oil and gas field.

Over several years, LNG Energy has built a management team that is concentrating on working with government officials and local villagers to ensure that the various stakeholders are kept fully informed of the Company's plans and activities as part of its commitment to involve the local communities in its work program.

 

LNG booth at NAPE Expo in Feb. 2011

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Richard Scherer with Marathon International and Continental Resources Executives at NAPE Expo.

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DAfseth at conference

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DAfseth Signing new licences

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Kuru Base Camp (Kuru 3 derrick)

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LNG Office

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LNG Office in Port Moresby

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LNG Office

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Port Moresby harbor

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Welcome at Kuru Base Camp

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Port Moresby

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Dave Afseth on Elk 4 visiting our neighbours 65km's East of LNG's property boundaries

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LNG Energy Ltd.
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