PM O'Neill meets with Total execs regarding OSH strategic relationship

[Palm]

"The Prime Minister also met with the executives of Total – an exploration company which has formed a strategic partnership with Oil Search Ltd to assess other exploration opportunities in PNG and Talisman Energy - a global upstream oil and gas company, headquartered in Canada. Talisman has two main operating areas: the Americas (North America &, Colombia) and the Asia-Pacific."

O'Neill still has yet to mention the IOC/Total lashup.

[Libtardius Maximus]

Nice find Palm, where did you get this?

[Palm]

A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the PNG People's National Congress website which carries all of the party's and O'Neill's official releases. This was included in PR about the US military pledging to work more closely with PNG for security and help when PNG hosts the APEC conference. The above tidbit was included at the end of the PR. It's interesting how many times items like this get left out of the press or are later quoted out of context.

[Spartina]

"The Prime Minister also met with the executives of Total – an exploration company which has formed a strategic partnership with Oil Search Ltd to assess other exploration opportunities in PNG and Talisman Energy - a global upstream oil and gas company, headquartered in Canada. Talisman has two main operating areas: the Americas (North America &, Colombia) and the Asia-Pacific."

O'Neill still has yet to mention the IOC/Total lashup.

Nice find Sherlock, Thanks.

[Getitrt2]

Thanks, Palm. Just enough from the site to wet our appetites, huh!

[jdeo1969]

"The Prime Minister also met with the executives of Total – an exploration company which has formed a strategic partnership with Oil Search Ltd to assess other exploration opportunities in PNG and Talisman Energy - a global upstream oil and gas company, headquartered in Canada. Talisman has two main operating areas: the Americas (North America &, Colombia) and the Asia-Pacific."

O'Neill still has yet to mention the IOC/Total lashup.

This is a vague statement.  What are you reading into this here Palm?

[Tree]

"The Prime Minister also met with the executives of Total – an exploration company which has formed a strategic partnership with Oil Search Ltd to assess other exploration opportunities in PNG and Talisman Energy - a global upstream oil and gas company, headquartered in Canada. Talisman has two main operating areas: the Americas (North America &, Colombia) and the Asia-Pacific."

O'Neill still has yet to mention the IOC/Total lashup.

This blurb does not report O'Neill met with TOT execs regarding OSH strategic partnership.  The report is O'Neill met TOT suits.

What is reported:  "The Prime Minister also met with the executives of Total"

How TOT is described:  "an exploration company which has formed a strategic partnership with Oil Search Ltd to assess other exploration opportunities in PNG"

What a stoopid arz way to describe TOT, by refering to a 2+ yr. old arrangement with OSH while neglecting to mention TOT's recent deal close of a 40.1% PRL15 stake.

My sense is this meeting wasn't unique.

[jft310]

The decision involves Billions for many parties , should involve many meetings to get all together on the same page

[Palm]

Not reading anything into it except that O'Neill met with Total. As Tree says it's strange that his party official PR adds in the bit about OSH. I've been told that Total is due to soon announce their in-PNG exec, so maybe that's all it was about. Obviously they "officially" only want to say right now that a meeting took place. What all was discussed? They obviously don't want anyone to know yet. Most of their other releases are much more detailed in nature. This one is very limited in scope, so we can do what we always do here and spin it 100 ways, or we can just take it for what it is; a notification that Total wigs met with O'Neill very recently. Door #2 is best