GEOLOGY & MINES

To Regulate and Promote

  • Petroleum
  • Geothermal
  • And Mineral Resources of Vanuatu to reach a level that contributes sustainably to the economy and social wellbeing for the present and future generations: while minimizing environmental impacts of these activities

A sustainable Petroleum, Geothermal and Mineral Resource Sector

 Enhancement of institutional capacity

  • Enhancement of the visibility and confidence in public actions to attract investments through transparent stable and efficiently enforced legislative and regulatory frameworks as well as updated and accessible geological statistics
  • Improvement of the capacity of the public institutions to fulfill key regulatory and promotional and monitoring role and for the formulation, management and implementation of geological resource strategies, plans and programs
  • Improvement capacity for monitoring and evaluation for an equitable and performing development

Development of Geo-scientific information’s systems and evaluation of resource potentials

  • Support to the discovery and preliminary evaluation of mineral, geothermal and petroleum resources
  • Improvement of accessibility and visibility of Vanuatu’s mineral, geothermal and petroleum potential