Milne Bay

Xestospon a exigua (Kirkpatrick) Genus Petrosia Vosmaer Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea 15, 16 [43]... 

When Sixth Army became the major SWPA American ground element, on a level co-ordinate with USASOS, in February 1943, it assumed responsibility for tactical supply. Colonel C. L. Marriott, Sixth Army chemical officer, arrived in Australia with the second echelon of the army in April but remained only a short time before moving forward to Milne Bay with Alamo Force, a task force created in June 194 from Sixth Army troops, and in fact a forward echelon of the army. Marriott s office was thus separated by i,aoo air miles from Copthorne s. Marriott s assistant. Major McKinney, remained in the Sixth Army headquarters. The only expeditious means of communication was by radio, but with such heavy demands on the radio net, normal communication was by letter or informal memo. ... 

Responsibility for CWS operational supply projects rested with Marriott. Since he had very little assistance and since, after the move to Alamo Force at Milne Bay, even his own section was divided, most of the supply policy load fell directly upon his own shoulders. But even this was not difficulty enough in the difficult Pacific area. He lacked the logistic information and means of transportation, and his ability to improvise locally was practically nil, since there was no available civilian source of transportation and no substitute line of communication to Allied forces such as many field chemical officers had. New Guinea had no motor roads, no industry, and only a little unskilled manpower. Air transportation carried very high priority and water transportation was at a premium. Until 15 November 1943, he could deal with the Chemical Officer, Advance Section, USASOS, at Port Moresby. From 15 November until 31 March 1944 he dealt with chemical officers of Advance Section at Lae and Intermediate Section at Port Moresby. But miles of water or air lay between the USASOS sections and his office in Alamo Force headquarters, which was at Milne Bay until October, at Goodenough Island until December, and near Finschhafen until May 1944. ... 

In May 1943 the theater asked the Chief, CWS, to comment on Its tentative plans for a smoke installation at Milne Bay, which, as had been foreseen, was now a more exposed harbor than Port Moresby. These plans, which included the employment of generators both on land and on water to conceal shipping activity in the harbor, suffered from a lack of power boats on which to mount the generators which were to be waterborne. The theater requested the War Department to send several craft suitable for this purpose along with the two smoke companies requisitioned earlier in the year. ... 

By mid-1943 the Japanese were raiding Goodenough Island regularly and Milne Bay, New Guinea, occasionally. The theater proceeded with its plans to station the two smoke generator units temporarily at Milne Bay where they could be adapted to island employment and... 

I) Interv, Hist Off with Morgan, former theater CWS liaison officer with the Australian Army, 30 Jan 46. (2) Interv, Burke, former CmlO Base A, Milne Bay, New Guineai 30 Jan 46,... 

The name milnamide A comes from the harvest site, Milne Bay, in Papua New-Guinea. Figure 19.59 Linear peptides of genera Auletta and Cymbastela. 

True sesterterpenes (C25) were recently isolated from a Hamigera sp. collected in Papua New Guinea (Milne Bay) and from a Phorbas sp. collected at Gageo Island, Korea. Alolaketals A and B from Hamigera sp. and phorbake-tals A-C from Phorbas sp. have monocydic carbon skeletons but with unusual spiroketal moieties, and it is likely that they are biosynthetically related. 

Hemibastadins and hemibastadinols, which have been isolated from lanthdla basta harvested in Papua New Gixinea are shortened forms which may he intermediates in the biosynthesis of hastadins (Pettit et al., 1996b). Lastly, dioxepine bastadine 3 is an imusual linear bastadin isolated from lanthdla cf. reticulata collected at Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. 

The major oil fields of Alaska lie in the northern part of the state. The narrow strip called the North Slope lies between the Brooks Range In the south and the Beaufort Sea coast in the north (Figure 1). Giant fields and a few smaller field discovered and currently producing on the North Slope include Prudhoe Bay, Kuparuk River, West Sak, LIsburne, Milne Point, and Endicott. To the west of these producing fields lies the National Petroleum Reserves - Alaska (NPR) while the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) is located to the east. North Slope production is divided primarily Into two major units the Prudhoe Bay Unit and the Kuparuk River Unit (Figure 2). The Prudhoe Bay Unit production is from deeper and older formations while Kuparuk River Unit production is from shallower reservoirs with low API and low GOR. 

The known oil and gas reservoirs on the North Slope fields are shown in Figure 3. Oil and gas occurs over a wide area at various horizons. Source rock was abundant in Paleozoic and Upper Cretaceous/Tertiary to generate sufficient quantity of hydrocarbons to fill traps of various resrvoirs. Gas from Paleozoic Package occurs in Triassic Sadlerochit Formation near Barrow In the east. In Kemik and Kavik in the west, and In Seal Island, and Gwydyr Bay in the north. Lower Cretaceous gas have been observed in Prudhoe Bay complex, Kuparuk, Milne Point, Point Thomson and the Beaufort-Mackenzie areas, Canada in the east. 

Table I presents a summary of the discovered natural gas resources In northern Alaska. It can be seen that the 38 trillion SCF natural gas in the Prudhoe Bay field is the most attractive natural gas resource and constitutes 81% of the total proven reserves. The other associated gas proven reserves are from Kuparuk River, Endicott, Lisburne, Milne Point and Point Thomson fields.

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