A total of 25 officers from the Department of Petroleum and Energy, Petromin PNG Holdings Ltd, Department of Labor and PNG Customs are participated in the seminar.
This workshop provides a comprehensive three-day overview of the responsibilities and activities of BSEE with detail discussion of how issues relevant to Papua New Guinea’s oil sector are handled in the United States.
The workshop cover the general areas of: Review of exploration and development plans, permitting inspections, pipeline regulation and a comprehensive review of regulatory enforcement.
The workshop is funded by the US State Department Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative and is facilitated by Metrica, Inc.
The EGCI team continues to work closely with U.S. technical experts in the U.S. Departments of Treasury and commerce, U.S. Industry, in USAID, and in international organizations. This team represents the top most experts in energy policy in the United States government.
This team has global expertise on issues related to petroleum geology, exploration and production operation, revenue management, sector regulation, policy reform and implementation, and energy sector finance. These experts provide unbiased, sound guidance and can further long-term institutional stability and good governance, said acting deputy chief of mission, Lee Calkins during the official opening of the seminar.
Acting secretary, department of Petroleum and Energy, Rendel Rimua emphasized that it is the department’s hope that all participants will learn and share ideas on policies on downstream process and compliance issues on gas and petroleum with their US counterparts.
The event is titled regulating field operations from exploration through development: The US model: Specific workshop topics:
• Regulatory program overview
• Regulatory Reorganization post-Mocondo
• Reservoir management (unitization, secondary recovery, and suspension of operations)
• Field operation and inspection
• Permit and application reviews and approvals
• Reservoir conservation management ensuring sound production
• Pipeline design, construction, maintenance, and inspection
• Regulatory enforcement: civil and criminal penalties
The U.S. Department of State, under the leadership of Davi Goldwyn, Secretary Clinton Coordination for International Energy Affairs, arrived in Port Moresby in 2010 to establish the Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative program in Papua New Guinea.
