Australian independent Twinza Oil’s Pasca gas condensate project off Papua New Guinea has recieved approval from the host government.

PNG Minister for Petroleum Kerenga Kua said the ministerial determination allows Twinza to progress Pasca in the Gulf of Papua, which will be the nation’s first offshore gas field development.

“The project, though small in relative terms to PNG LNG and Papua LNG, has the highest combined flow rate of gas and condensate ever recorded offshore PNG and is likely to underpin the commercialisation of other offshore gas fields,” said Kua.