The workscope includes civil engineering, construction and site preparation to upgrade existing infrastructure and build new infrastructure that will enable full-scale construction to start in early 2010.

The Australian-PNG joint venture will be working across a number of the upstream project sites such as Hides, the planned location of the Hides gas conditioning plant, Gobe, where an existing airport is located, and Kutubu, home of a producing oilfield.

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