Motukea Fuel Farm ready

Newly appointed Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited director, Isaac Lupari, recently visited two of the company’s major project sites – the Motukea Fuel Facility and the Caution Bay Training and Fabrication Facility. Accompanied by KPHL Acting Managing Director Dr. Luke Liria, Lupari familiarised himself with the infrastructure and their stages of completion.

“It is pleasing to see that these facilities are at an advanced stage of completion,” Lupari said. “The Motukea Fuel Facility will be mechanically complete next week, services are connected, staff have been recruited and after commissioning in June, it will be ready for commercial operations in August.”

“The Motukea facility has the capacity to hold 12 million litres of JetA1 fuel, and was built in response to

Government and public concerns about fuel security at the time when Puma stopped importing fuel.”

At KPHL’s Caution Bay site, the Training Academy was structurally complete and that the Safe, Live Processing Plant, previously installed at the Kumul Petroleum Academy at Idubada, had been transported to the site in preparation for the next session of technical training to commence.

The nearby 294-man camp was complete and ready to service future petroleum development contractors

operating in the Caution Bay area.

Mr Lupari added, “The KPHL Board is critically reviewing all major project activities that KPHL is undertaking,

including assessing the most effective management for these important facilities going forward.”

“These Kumul Petroleum initiatives are aimed at supporting the development of the petroleum and other

resource industries in Papua New Guinea, and maximising national content in them. We are looking forward to FID for Papua LNG and KPHL’s involvement in all aspects of that project.”