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THE Minister for Petroleum and Energy Dr Fabian Pok will sign the long waited Ministerial Determination for the pipeline and brown field areas today.
Dr Pok told Parliament that he will sign the ministerial determination that will now pave way for the pipeline and brown field landowners who are also part of the upstream landowners to benefit from revenues including royalties and equities from the PNG LNG project.
The only landowner group that has benefited so far is the Portion 152 landowners in the Central Province as they have no issues and the pipeline and the brown fields like Kutubu, Moran five and six, the Kikori landowners and Beneria landowners in the Hela Province would have their determination signed by the Minister.
The other good news according to Dr Pok is that the landowner beneficiary identification process (Clan Vetting) for the Juha project in the Hela and Western provinces will be carried out next week after a long delay.
He said these are landowners who existing project landowners and landowners who have no landowner issues that have made the identification process led by the Department of Petroleum easy.
However, Mr Pok said the only landowners that are yet to be identified are Juha (which will take place next week), the Hides PDL 1 and PDL 7 landowners because of the earthquake while the Angore landowner has gone through the Alternate Dispute Resolution led by Justice Ambeng Kandakasi, which is about 80 per cent complete.
He said the government allocated K3 million through the budget and managed by Kumul Petroleum Holding Limited because more than K30 million parked in the department was blown out without achieving any result.
He said K1.2 million as allowance to identify landowners within the brown fields and the pipelines while ExxonMobil met all the other cost including vehicle and accommodation.
Dr Pok said another K1 million was given for the ADR team to complete the process.
He said the other team would also start soon but some issues are also in the courts that they had to fight to defend them causing all the unnecessary delays.
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