The PNG Chamber of Mines & Petroleum Conference 2022 officially commenced today in Sydney, Australia. About 1200 delegates are in attendance with many corporate organizations including the Mineral Resources Authority (MRA) participating as exhibitors. Prime Minister Hon James Marape when delivering his keynote speech, said Papua New Guinea like many other countries in the world has its own share of challenges when it comes to investment and business, but investors should not be discouraged by this situation. He said this was because these challenges were similar to those found in many other investment jurisdictions around the world. “You tell me where in the world does not have challenges?” He said some of the current investors in the country had found out and experienced for themselves that the countries they had invested in before, had similar issues like PNG. He said Total Energies and Santos were two of the investors now in PNG that had gone through these experiences and conseq