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Moro Airport is a remote airstrip in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, built to support ExxonMobil's Moro oil and gas operations near Lake Kutubu. It sits at a high elevation of 2,726 ft and offers a single lit hard runway, with flying restricted to daylight hours.
Moro Airport serves the ExxonMobil-operated Moro oil and gas fields in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, lying close to Lake Kutubu. For a simulator pilot it is a good example of a Papua New Guinean highlands industrial airstrip, set at a demanding elevation of 2,726 ft and supporting scheduled links to major PNG hubs.
The airfield lies in the Southern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea, near Lake Kutubu, in a mountainous, sparsely populated part of the country. No specific airspace classification or controlled airspace boundaries are given in available references.
Moro has a single physical runway, 09/27, measuring 6,004 ft and surfaced in hard material, equipped with lighting. There is no ILS or other instrument approach aid.
No published communications frequencies are recorded for Moro Airport, and there is no ILS or other radio navigation aid associated with the field.
Lake Kutubu, situated close to the airfield, serves as the most prominent visual landmark for pilots approaching Moro.
Moro Airport was developed to support ExxonMobil's oil and gas operations in the Moro area of the Southern Highlands Province. The runway is unsealed in general regional guides, and aviation activity at the field has traditionally been limited to daylight hours.
The airfield continues to support ExxonMobil's Moro camp and associated oil and gas operations. Scheduled air services have included Air Niugini flights to Cairns and PNG Air flights to Mount Hagen and Port Moresby, with operations conducted only during daylight hours.
