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PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea and HOUSTON, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InterOil Corporation (NYSE:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC) and its joint venture partner, Pacific LNG Group, have entered into exclusive negotiations with ExxonMobil Papua New Guinea Ltd., a subsidiary of ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM), on the development of Petroleum Retention License 15 (PRL 15), which comprises the Elk and Antelope fields in the Gulf Province of Papua New Guinea. The transaction has been discussed with the...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea and HOUSTON, May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InterOil Corporation (NYSE:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC) today announced financial and operating results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. First Quarter 2013 Highlights and Recent Developments On January 24, 2013, the Minister for Petroleum & Energy approved and the DPE registered the transfer of interest in PPL 237 to Pacific Rubiales Energy (PRE) and the related PRE JVOA. During the quarter, an...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea and HOUSTON, May 6, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InterOil Corporation (NYSE: IOC) (POMSoX: IOC), announces that it will release financial and operating results for the first quarter of 2013 after the market closes for trading on Monday, May 13, 2013, with full text of the news release and accompanying financials available on the company's website at www.interoil.com. A conference call will be held on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, at 7:30 a.m. Central (8:30 a.m....
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea and HOUSTON, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InterOil Corporation (NYSE:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC) announces the adoption of a new shareholder rights plan (the "New Rights Plan") which will become effective on May 29, 2013, concurrent with the termination of the current shareholders rights plan of InterOil, and the Company has also adopted new by laws, which became effective on April 24, 2013. Shareholder Rights PlanInterOil adopted both the original rights plan...
TORONTO, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ - Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX: PRE; BVC: PREC; BOVESPA: PREB) announced today the results of an independent resource assessment for certain of the Company's exploration blocks in Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Guyana, Guatemala and Papua New Guinea ("PNG"). The 2012 resource assessment was prepared by Petrotech Engineering Ltd. ("Petrotech") with an effective date of September 30, 2012 (the "2012 Resource Report"). The 2012 Resource Report...
Partner Selection Process Moving Forward as Planned PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea and HOUSTON, April 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InterOil Corporation (NYSE:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC) today announced that the Joint Venture Operating Agreements (JVOA) relating to operations within Petroleum Retention License 15 and Petroleum Prospecting License 237 have been approved by the Minister for Petroleum and Energy and registered under the Oil and Gas Act. As previously disclosed, InterOil has received...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online A recent flight from Papua New Guinea to Hong Kong was found to have had some surprising passengers during a layover in Indonesia. According to officials at the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta, an outgoing flight contained 687 baby pig-nosed turtles which were reportedly set to be smuggled into Hong Kong. It is estimated these turtles could have netted their smuggler an estimated $13,000. The Jakarta Natural...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea and HOUSTON, March 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InterOil Corporation (NYSE:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC) is pleased to announce that it has completed the farm-in transaction with Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. (TSX: PRE; BVC: PREC; BOVESPA: PREB) ("PRE") relating to its acquisition of a 10.0% net (12.9% gross) participating interest in Petroleum Prospecting License 237 ("PPL 237") onshore Papua New Guinea, including the Triceratops structure and exploration acreage...
Pensoft Publishers 1 of 3 recently discovered wasp species was named after Beatrix Kiddo, referring to the deadly parasitoid practices of the animal Parasitoid wasps of the family Braconidae are known for their deadly reproductive habits. Most of the representatives of this group have their eggs developing in other insects and their larvae, eventually killing the respective host, or in some cases immobilizing it or causing its sterility. Three new species of the parasitoid wasp genus...
PORT MORESBY, Papua New Guinea and HOUSTON, March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InterOil Corporation (NYSE:IOC) (POMSoX:IOC) is pleased to announce that its advisors have informed the Company that several bids to partner with InterOil in its Gulf LNG project have been received. Our advisors are now evaluating the submissions. The InterOil Board of Directors will meet the Company's advisors during March 2013 for the purpose of evaluating bids received for the development of the Gulf LNG...
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Astrocoeniidae is a family of stony corals endemic to the waters around Papua New Guinea and northern Australia. Their habitats are steep slopes where strong currents rise from below, in crevices and below overhangs. These are reef-building colonial corals containing an algae known as zooxanthallae. These algae typically encrust corals up to 20 inches in diameter. On reef slopes, where water is more turbid (cloudy/murky), they are much smaller, only reaching 2 inches across. The World...
Australasia is one of Earth's eight ecosystems. This ecozone includes Australia, New Guinea (including Papua New Guinea and the Indonesian province of Papua), and the eastern region of the Indonesian archipelago (island of Sulawesi, Moluccan islands, and the islands of Lombok, Sumbawa, Sumba, Flores, and Timor). Several Pacific island groups are also part of the Australasia ecosystem including the Bismarck Archipelago, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, and New Caledonia. The rest of Indonesia not...
Southern Tailed Birdwing (Ornithoptera meridionalis), is the smallest species of butterfly in its genus. It is found in southern Papua New Guinea and in several areas along the south coast of Irian Jaya. It is strictly a lowland species, favouring primary rainforest. A very few specimens have also been collected at altitude in Irian Jaya, however these specimens were reared from immature stages and emerged crippled, suggesting that high altitude forests are not favoured habitats. Males...
The Black Tree Monitor, Varanus beccari, is a relatively small member of the Varanidae family. It is native to the forest of the Aru Islands of Papua New Guinea. It is well adapted to living in trees. This species has a particularly long tail, sometimes two-thirds of the overall length of the body. It is used to stabilize the animal when on tree branches. In fact the tail is used for this purpose solely. It does not use its tail for lashing in a defensive manner as seen in other monitor...
Quolls or native cats (genus Dasyurus) are carnivorous marsupials, native to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Adults are between 9.84 and 29.53 in (25 and 75 cm) long, with hairy tails about 7.87-13.78 in (20-35 cm) long. Females have six to eight nipples and develop a pouch. The pouch opens towards the tail, only during the breeding season, when they are raising young. The babies are the size of a grain of rice. Quolls live both in forests and in open valley land. Though primarily ground...
