PAPUA New Guinea's Kina Petroleum plans to embark on a major farm-out campaign covering exploration acreage within close proximity of the gas discoveries that will provide feedstock for the Papua liquefied natural gas project, writes Russell Searancke.

Kina said interests in at least six of its 100%-owned exploration permits will be offered over the next six to 12 months.

"The key feature of this programme will be the location of these licences, being less than 50 kilometres from the Elk-Antelope discoveries in PRL 15 which are being developed by Total as part of the Papua LNG project."