Total and ExxonMobil are in discussions to find a “reasonable agreement” on the use of facilities for two currently separate liquefied natural gas projects in Papua New Guinea, writes Eoin O’Cinneide.

The ExxonMobil-operated PNG LNG development is already producing, while Total is still aiming to take a final investment decision on the two-train Papua LNG brownfield development next year.

The two trains will develop the Total-operated Elk-Antelope gas field, but those trains, together with a third train to develop gas from the ExxonMobil-operated P’nyang field, will be built on the site of PNG LNG.