The 2nd AAPG/EAGE Papua New Guinea Petroleum Conference & Exhibition with its overarching theme, “Petroleum Developments: Underpinning Papua New Guinea’s Energy Future” is designed primarily for those who explore for petroleum accumulations, appraise them and seek to develop them as producing oil and gas fields. Petroleum Geoscientists of all kinds from: wellsite geologists to exploration program managers; geophysicists to geochemists; and stratigraphers to sedimentologists, and all those others who contribute to the elucidation of the hydrocarbon endowment of a place like Papua New Guinea are most welcome.