ExxonMobil and Papua New Guinea: Growing stronger together

PNG LNG is celebrating a decade of operations.
Almost 90% of our team are local Papua New Guineans.
We invest in local Papua New Guineans, developing them to a global standard and their full potential.

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3 min read

• May 13, 2025

Chasing a dream of seeing snow, trying exotic food, and experiencing a totally new world are just some of the perks of working as an expat at ExxonMobil.

For a decade, we’ve been utilizing our global scale to bring Papua New Guinea to the world, accelerating the country’s opportunities through the PNG LNG project.

As our local teams have grown, we’re taking their skills and personalities to the global stage.

And our Papua New Guinean teams are taking what they’ve learned around the world back home, enabling them to lead and train the nation's next generation for a new energy landscape.

As we celebrate 10 years of partnership, growth and success at ExxonMobil PNG, meet four of our team members who were on expatriate assignments around the world in 2024.

Discover their stories of work and life in the United States and Singapore, as they showcase what Papua New Guineans are capable of and how we're providing them the tools to help create a stronger PNG.

A desire to see snow – and willingness to leap into the unknown – has led Noah into a career helping to power PNG.

Noah Pingin

LNG Operations Advisor

The potential to see the bigger picture for Papua New Guinea, and building the nation’s skills, has taken Gerard across the world.

Gerard Schulze

Lead Development Planner

Circumstances can be fluid when moving LNG around the world, but for Nonnie, her experiences overseas are giving her the skills and flexibility to help PNG be ready for anything.

Nonnie Eri

LNG Voyage Optimizer

Alma is using a lifetime of experience in the Land of the Unexpected to prepare her teams for any scenario.

Alma Gaso

Negotiator

Our global scale is providing Papua New Guineans unparalleled opportunities, helping to develop the nation’s workforce into the industry leaders of tomorrow. Investing in Papua New Guinea and its people today is helping accelerate careers and capability, to build the nation for the future.