MOTUKEA FUEL FARM READY TO GO!

Newly appointed Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited director, Mr Isaac Lupari,
on Saturday 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, director Lupari familiarised himself with the
infrastructure and their stages of completion. Director Lupari said, ” It is pleasing to see that these facilities are
at an advanced stage of completion. The Motukea Fuel Facility will be mechanically complete next week,
services are connected, staff have 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, director Lupari saw that 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.”
Director Lupari confirmed that Kumul Petroleum’s main focus at present was preparing to take up equity in the
Papua LNG Project, and that KPHL remained committed to continuing to work closely with the government,
industry partners, and financiers to achieve sustainable growth and national prosperity.
“Kumul Petroleum remains a cornerstone in the development and safeguarding of PNG’s natural resources
sector, whilst simultaneously contributing to achieving socio-economic goals through our nation-building
projects.”