Why Alaska’s Arctic is so important to a Papua New Guinea oil company

Port Moresby-based Oil Search, which recently hired former Trump administration official Joe Balash, needs a win in Alaska to offset difficulties at home.

By Sonali Paul, Reuters September 9, 2019
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MELBOURNE — With a giant gas project expansion in the tropical highlands of remote Papua New Guinea bogged down by politics, the country’s biggest company, Oil Search, is turning for growth to the other side of the world in Alaska’s Arctic.

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