National Petroleum Company deal with Pertamina ‘only limited by our joint imaginations’: Kramer

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Last month, Papua New Guinea’s fledgling National Petroleum Company signed its first deal, and it was a big one: a Memorandum of Understanding with Indonesia’s massive national oil company, Pertamina. NPCP Chairman Frank Kramer explains how the relationship will work.

Around the world: why all those visits to Papua New Guinea from Australia? and other international stories

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Thoughts on why so many Australian ministers to visit PNG recently, closer trade ties with Indonesia loom, and Vanuatu’s new PM discusses changing the status quo.