Papua New Guinea Fuel

Papua New Guinea is a petrol producer, even if the capacities are limited and the reserves decreasing Companies’ exploration and production are mainly located on the New Guinea Island. For example, InterOil has 3 onshore exploration licenses in Papua New Guinea.

Information on oil refining, facilities and major subcontractors can be found in the following document:

Papua New Guinea Fuel Additional Information

Fuel Pricing

The ICCC plays an active role in monitoring the ex refinery price of petrol, diesel and kerosene prices in PNG and also domestic transport costs. The wholesale and retail margins component of fuel prices is price controlled in PNG and the margins are determined by the ICCC following a public inquiry.

The level of fuel prices in PNG is determined by a combination of factors, These include:

• international refined petroleum products prices
• the PNG kina / Unites States dollar exchange rate
• international shipping freight rates
• domestic shipping and road freight rates
• wholesale and retail margins
• excise duties
• Goods and Services Tax (GST)

Information on main influences on fuel price movements can be found in the following document:

Papua New Guinea Fuel Additional Information

Seasonal Variations 

Fuel Transportation

How is internal transportation of fuel products carried out?

• Essentially by boat from Napa Napa to the main provvincial ports.
• From POM and Lae sea ports, land transport is ensured to reach the Highlands areas

The road networks is such that the demand is lower that what it could be. On the other hand, the unreliable supply of electricity lead all the major companies and residences to have their own electricity production capacity, from generators to real fuel power plants of several MegaWatts.

Is the transportation infrastructure and fleet sufficient to handle current domestic needs as well as increased demand from the humanitarian community? Yes

Standards, Quality and Testing

Papua New Guinea Transporters

Transport Market Overview

Transport in PNG relies more on coastal shipping and air operations than on the roads.

Sector Road Map

The poor condition of Papua New Guinea’s transport infrastructure inhibits mobility and makes basic services inaccessible to many households. A nation’s productivity and competitiveness is partly a function of its ability to move people and goods efficiently to markets. PNG’s fragmented transport network system limits the markets producers can sell to, fosters local monopolies, and raises costs considerably.

Transport Companies

The major operators, whether they are specific transport specialists (Steamships, Consort, Swire, Agility, Express Freight Management, etc.) or important industrial actors (Mainland Holding, etc.); are all trying to run different transport activities. The only sector that remains very specific is the air transport sector, where the companies present are only implementing this kind of operations.

For a list of companies offering air transport, sea transport, coastal shipping or logistics operations, please select the following document:

PNG Transporters List

Papua New Guinea Additional Service Providers: Vehicle Rental, Taxi Companies, Freight Forwarding Agents, Handling Equipment, Power Generation and ISPs

4.2.5 Papua New Guinea Additional Service Provision Contact List

Vehicle Rental

For a list of vehicle rental companies, please select the contact list given above.

Taxi Companies

For a list of vehicle rental companies, please select the contact list given above.

Freight Forwarding Agents

They are plenty FF companies, mostly in towns surrounding the main mining sites (Lae, Port-Moresby, New Ireland province, etc. Furthermore, coastal shipping becoming more and more important, some FF companies are present in nearly all the provincial capital towns. For a list of freight forwarding agents please select the contact list given above. Further background information on the availability of transport can be found in the following document: Papua New Guinea Additional Service Providers Additional Information

Handling Equipment 

For a list of handling equipment agents, please select the contact list given above. Further information on these contacts can be found in the following document: Papua New Guinea Additional Service Providers Additional Information

Electricity and Power

In Papua New Guinea (PNG), less than 10% of the population has access to electricity. Where power is available, generally in the main urban centers, the supply is often unreliable. Access to electricity is very limited in off-grid rural areas. Lack of access to affordable, reliable power is limiting economic growth in urban areas, constraining growth in smaller urban centers and contributing to poverty in rural areas. Currently, there are two main separate power grids in Port Moresby, and in the Lae, Madang, Highlands areas (the Ramu grid) as well as a number of smaller grids servicing the smaller urban centers. Because of the unreliability of the power supply, there is considerable self-generation and back-up generation capacity in urban areas; maintenance and operation costs are high and efficiencies low. PNG has about 580 megawatts (MW) of installed generation capacity, including hydropower (230 MW, or 39.7%), diesel (217 MW, or 37.4%), gas-fired (82 MW or 14.1%), and geothermal (53 MW or 9.1%). There are a number of private sector power generators currently operating in PNG, including:

• Hanjung Power Ltd, a private company that operates a power station (26.4 MW) supplying the Port Moresby grid;
• PNG Sustainable Energy Ltd, which operates a number of rural grids in Western Province and is expanding operations to other parts of the country;
• Mining operations that maintain significant levels of self-generation capacity.

In addition:

• Provincial governments have responsibility for maintaining a number of stand-alone rural generation facilities (C-centres),
• Churches provide electricity to some off-grid villages,
• The larger mining sites sometimes provide power to adjacent communities.

For more generic information on electricity availability in PNG, information on electricity generation, electricity distribution and supply electricity, please select the following document:

Papua New Guinea Additional Service Providers Additional Information

Internet Service Providers (ISPs)

For a list of internet service providers, please select the contact list given above. Further information on these contacts can be found in the following document:

Papua New Guinea Additional Service Providers Additional Information

Papua New Guinea Telecommunications 

Although PNG has a relatively advanced telecom network, tele-density as well as mobile and Internet penetration remains very low. Telecoms infrastructure is limited to the major urban centres of Port Moresby, Lae and Mt Hagen leaving rural areas very poorly served. In order to address this, a private company, Digicel, is building a US$500 million mobile network, across PNG. The state owned company, Telikom, is also extending its network to rural areas for both land and mobile systems, using V-Sats powered by solar systems.

Further generic information on the telecommunications sector in PNG can be found in the following document:

Papua New Guinea Telecommunications Additional Information

Telecommunication Regulation

The department in charge of telecommunications regulations is: National Information & Communications Technology Authority (NICTA) NICTA. The NICTA is the converged regulator established by an Act of Parliament, the National Information and Communications Technology Act 2009 (NICT Act). The functions of NICTA include the issuance of all Telecommunications licences (Operator and Radio communications) as well as ensuring that provision of ICT services conform to National and International standards. The NICT Act allows for converged regulatory authority to address economic and consumer issues which were previously dealt by ICCC. The NICTA Act further created a secretariat called the Universal Access and Fund Secretariat (UAF Secretariat) within NICTA to manage donor, government and industry levies used to rollout ICT projects to rural areas and communities around the country.

The Department of Communication and Information (DCI) has jurisdiction over information services, policy, research and development, and provides support services for the Minister for State Enterprises and Information, and, recently, privatization function. Its primary responsibilities include collecting, collating, and disseminating government development information to information and educate the general public, research and develop information and communication policies, and coordinate among the communication entities on the implementation of related policies.

Existing Humanitarian Telecoms Systems

In PNG there are numerous telecommunication systems for use by emergency agencies. Communication between national agencies is limited to land or mobile telecommunications. At the national level, communication between the NDC and PDCs is via the Health Department radio communications network. The NDC utilizes the Health Department Radio Communication Network to relay warning/forecast messages to the provinces during times of emergencies. PDCs play an important role in disseminating information to communities and national agencies during emergencies.

Further information on emergency telecommunications, findings and recommendations of the author of this LCA can be found in the following document:

Papua New Guinea Telecommunications Additional Information

Papua New Guinea Food Suppliers, Accommodation and Other Markets

4.2.5 Papua New Guinea Additional Service Provision Contact List

Main Food Suppliers

PNG Food Production

• A small proportion of land can sustain cash crops, including coffee and cocoa (arable land: 0.49%)
• Permanent crops: 1.4%
• Other: 98.11% (2005)

Main Production

• Coffee, cocoa, copra, palm kernels, tea, sugar, sweet potatoes, fruits, vegetables, vanilla; shell fish, poultry, pork.
• Rice is becoming a staple food.
• The food market is - except for flour & rice on the import side and coffee & tea for the export - not organized as an industry with organized & stabilized food pipelines.
• Even if nearly all food products may be found in the country, the local suppliers only maintain a minimal stock and are not ready signing stand-by agreement or buffer stocks agreement with the humanitarian agencies.

For a list of the main food suppliers, please select the following document:

PNG Local Supplies Market List

Accommodation

For a list of accommodation providers in the country, please select the contact list given above.