HOME ABOUT US ADVERTISE SUBSCRIBE SITE MAP HELP CONTACT WORK FOR US   Friday 10 September 2010 Make PNG my HomePage    GOMEZ STORIES [ 105 Results - Showing Results 1 to 30 ] Monster grows again (Friday, 23 October 2009) XSTRATA and Indophil Resources’ Tampakan project in the Philippines has grown to 2.4 billion tonnes, including a 25% increase in measured resources. Full Story... Australia and PNG get down to business (Thursday, 8 May 2008) Even though the signing of the PNG Gas Agreement with ExxonMobil appears imminent, most of the discussion at the 24th annual Australia-PNG Business Council Forum focused on various other subjects. Full Story... Plenty of room at the inn, but not for a few years (Friday, 2 May 2008) IT COULD well take three or four years before visitors to Port Moresby will be able to find a hotel room without too much hassle. Full Story... First Australia-PNG Ministerial Forum since 2005 hits the ground running (Thursday, 24 April 2008) Despite goodwill and good intentions on both sides, Australian and PNG Ministers meeting in Madang yesterday will not find it easy to get bilateral relations back on an even keel. Full Story... Oil Search winning streak closely tied to core PNG interests (Thursday, 17 April 2008) OIL Search has cleaned its decks in preparation for its participation in PNG’s first LNG project, hiving off US$200 million worth of its exploration and production assets in Yemen and Egypt to Kuwait Energy Company. Full Story... Australia-PNG Ministerial Forum should set tone for constructive engagement (Thursday, 10 April 2008) The forthcoming Australia-PNG Ministerial Forum in the seaside resort of Madang will signal the style and substance of bilateral cooperation during Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s term in office. Full Story... PNG is hottest new global exploration destination (Thursday, 3 April 2008) PAPUA New Guinea is set to establish itself in the next couple of years as the world’s hottest new exploration destination with unprecedented attention from global mining majors. Full Story... PNG's Phase III hydrocarbon development should surpass the original Kutubu Promise (Thursday, 27 March 2008) THE Oil Search decision to rationalise non-core assets is a logical flow-on from unspectacular exploration and production in Yemen and Egypt and a need to conserve cash for its LNG project in PNG. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Socio-economic benefits from PNG’s coming resources boom are unimaginable (Thursday, 20 March 2008) This column has generally taken a bullish view of Papua New Guinea’s potential but recent developments are way beyond anything this writer could have imagined even a couple of years ago.By Brian Gomez Full Story... China’s Ramu Nickel developer aims to lower environmental impact (Thursday, 13 March 2008) The Ramu nickel-cobalt operations, estimated to cost $US1.3 billion, is accessing top-class international advice to ensure its deep sea tailings program involves a state-of-the-art operation. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Government corruption could slow development (Thursday, 28 February 2008) WITH billions of dollars sloshing around PNG Government trust funds for the first time in its modern history, there are heightened concerns that unprecedented development opportunities will go begging. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Xstrata's Frieda River heralds PNG's coming copper boom (Thursday, 21 February 2008) THIS column has previously made predictions of the scope of PNG's coming mining boom and the laudatory impacts of a range of small, medium and large projects. Forget small and large, and think mega. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Is Kokoda Track more - or less - important than Kakadu National Park? (Thursday, 14 February 2008) AUSTRALIA expects to have its way in protecting the historic Kokoda Track and sending to oblivion plans by the Gold Coast-headquartered Frontier Resources to develop its $A1 billion ($US916.7 million) Kodu copper-molybdenum-gold project. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Kokoda Track challenges Rudd once again (Thursday, 7 February 2008) Only weeks before his first official visit to Papua New Guinea, Australian Prime Minister is on the front page of the PNG newspapers for all the wrong reasons. By Brian Gomez Full Story... The Australia-PNG relationship can only improve under Kevin Rudd (Thursday, 31 January 2008) IN RECENT times much has been written about the Pacific Island "arc of instability" with a perception that the situation has deteriorated across the region. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Autonomous Bougainville Government no better - or worse - than in other provinces (Thursday, 24 January 2008) BOUGAINVILLE's Panguna copper mine was a global giant until it was prematurely shut down in 1989 by a secessionist movement. By Brian Gomez Full Story... PNG has top climate for exploration spending (Thursday, 17 January 2008) PAPUA New Guinea, which should enjoy more than 6% economic growth for the second successive year, is eyeing more mining projects in the coming decade than all the activity in the past four decades. By Brian Gomez Full Story... PNG's rising taste for US and Asian imports mirrors Australian stagnation (Thursday, 10 January 2008) Despite its relatively small economy and the negative press Papua New Guinea has been getting, Australia's international trade agency, Austrade, does not doubt the important bilateral economic relationship.By Brian Gomez Full Story... Gold production surge gathering speed (Thursday, 3 January 2008) LOOK forward to a significant resurgence in gold production in Papua New Guinea. Output in 2006 fell to a dismal 55.8 tonnes, the lowest annual figure since the drought affected 44.3t produced in 1997. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Australia-Pacific Islands ties should blossom under Rudd Government (Thursday, 13 December 2007) ANZ's head of international economics, Amy Auster, is predicting a more constructive engagement between Australia and Pacific island nations after the deterioration "over the past several years". By Brian Gomez Full Story... Infrastructure activity gains momentum in PNG (Thursday, 6 December 2007) ONE of the biggest infrastructure development programs ever undertaken is moving swiftly ahead in Papua New Guinea, thanks to windfall government revenues from mining and oil exports. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Conservative PNG forecasts underplay continuing revenue surge (Thursday, 29 November 2007) The PNG Treasury has adopted extremely conservative forecasts for the mining and oil sectors. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Why double-digit growth rates can be anticipated towards end of this decade (Thursday, 22 November 2007) PNG is enjoying boom conditions across all sectors of the economy and throughout the country, with mining and oil and gas poised to underpin double-digit growth rates in about three or four years time. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Oilies to rescue stranded resources (Thursday, 8 November 2007) WHILE proposed LNG projects have been hogging the limelight in PNG, attention will soon shift to a variety of players that for the first time are looking for gas previously deemed unmarketable. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Goldminex mixes it up with mining's big boys (Thursday, 1 November 2007) THERE certainly was a buzz at the two-day mining conference in Port Moresby organised by the PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Barrick Gold lifts its PNG profile with purchase of Kainantu gold mine (Thursday, 25 October 2007) THE totally unanticipated sale of the Kainantu gold mine to the PNG arm of Barrick Gold shows clearly that even in business the country is living up to its "land of the unexpected" reputation. By Brian Gomez Full Story... PNG starting to grab world attention (Thursday, 18 October 2007) IT SEEMS the business world is finally starting to sit up and take notice of Papua New Guinea and its tremendous resources potential. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Telecommunications saga still has a way to go (Thursday, 11 October 2007) Until this week, many commentators had been anticipating that the Somare Government may be about to revoke the mobile phone licences of Digicel and Greencom. By Brian Gomez Full Story... Troubled PNG gold miners pursue divergent paths (Thursday, 4 October 2007) In recent times Emperor's Tolukuma gold mine has followed a similar pathway to Highlands Pacific's Kainantu mine. By Brian Gomez Full Story... PNG's 5%+ growth this year could be benchmark for next decade (Thursday, 27 September 2007) The Asian Development Bank has confirmed PNG Government forecasts that economic growth this year will exceed 5%, predicting 5.2% in its latest Asia Pacific development outlook report. This contrasts with the PNG Treasury forecast of 5.5%. By Brian Gomez Full Story... 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