GAS FIELDS – TIMOR SEA

Santos clears last hurdle for $5.8b Barossa gas field

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Original article by Elouise Fowler
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 16 : 23-Apr-25

A spokeswoman for oil and gas group Santos has advised that first production at its Barossa gas project in the Timor Sea remains on track for the September 2025 quarter. The National Offshore Petroleum Safety & Environmental Management Authority has granted the last major regulatory approval for the $5.8bn gas project, which has faced numerous delays due to environmental ‘lawfare’. Santos had advised in February that the Barossa project was 91 per cent complete.

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SANTOS LIMITED – ASX STO, AUSTRALIA. NATIONAL OFFSHORE PETROLEUM SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

Timor-Leste lays down ultimatum to Santos on gas project negotiations

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Original article by Peter Milne
The Age – Page: Online : 27-Aug-24

Sources have indicated that the Timor-Leste government is seeking a stake of at least 10 per cent in the Bayu Undan gas project in the Timor Sea. The production-sharing contracts of Santos and its partners in the project are slated to expire on 30 August; Timor-Leste’s Petroleum Minister Francisco da Costa Monteiro has written to Santos warning that the contracts will not be extended unless the Bayu Undan partners agree to the government’s demands. The gas fields are almost depleted, and Santos proposes to use them to store carbon from its Barossa gas project.

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SANTOS LIMITED – ASX STO, EAST TIMOR. MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES, MINERALS AND ENERGY

Santos gets green light on $5bn project

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Original article by Colin Packham
The Australian – Page: 13 & 14 : 16-Jan-24

The Federal Court’s Justice Natalie Charlesworth has ruled that Santos will not need to revise its environmental plan for the $5.3bn Barossa LNG project in the Timor Sea. Justice Charlesworth ordered Santos to temporarily stop work on a 262km pipeline in late 2023, pending a final ruling on Tiwi Islanders’ legal challenge to the Barossa project; Justice Charlesworth on Monday said she was not convinced that the pipeline would cause irreparable harm to the cultural heritag of the traditional owners. Santos CEO Kevin Gallagher says the company will shortly resume its drilling program, adding that the court ruling will have broad economic benefits.

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SANTOS LIMITED – ASX STO, FEDERAL COURT OF AUSTRALIA

East Timor in fresh play for Sunrise plant

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Original article by Angela Macdonald-Smith, John Kehoe, Colin Packham
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 13 & 18 : 7-Feb-23

Timor Gap president Antonio de Sousa says that securing approvals for gas projects is much easier in East Timor than it is in Australia, with Timor Gap being East Timor’s national oil company. His comments come as Woodside Energy and its partners in the Sunrise gas field agreed to carry out a fresh study into the viability of taking gas from Sunrise to East Timor for processing; they have previously insisted that it must be taken to Darwin for processing. However, Credit Suisse analyst Saul Kavonic says the "economic realities" are still stacked against processing the gas from Sunrise on East Timor.

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TIMOR GAP EP, WOODSIDE ENERGY GROUP LIMITED – ASX WDS, CREDIT SUISSE (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED

Woodside offers fix on Sunrise deadlock

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Original article by Angela Macdonald-Smith
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 17 : 19-Oct-18

ConocoPhillips advised in late September that it had entered into an agreement to sell its stake in the Greater Sunrise venture to the Timor-Leste government for $US350 million. Woodside Petroleum and the other members of the venture have pre-emption rights over the stake, and Woodside CFO Sherry Duhe says a decision on whether to do so will be made soon. Timor-Leste is insisting that gas from Greater Sunrise is processed onshore, but Woodside CEO Peter Coleman has reaffirmed that an onshore plant would not meet its investment hurdles. He said a way around this dilemma would be for Woodside to only invest in the offshore part of the project. Woodside has reported a 25.4 per cent increase in sales for the September quarter.

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WOODSIDE PETROLEUM LIMITED – ASX WPL, CONOCOPHILLIPS, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC, OSAKA GAS COMPANY, TOKYO GAS COMPANY LIMITED, KANSAI ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY INCORPORATED

Woodside may back Timor gas export plant

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Original article by Perry Williams
The Australian – Page: 22 : 3-Oct-18

ConocoPhillips’ deal to sell its 30 per cent stake in the Sunrise gas field to the Timor-Leste government may prompt Woodside Petroleum to resume negotiations over development of the Timor Sea resource. There is speculation that Woodside may be more open to processing gas at a greenfields plant on Timor-Leste in the wake of ConocoPhillips’ move. Woodside has a 33 per cent stake in Sunrise and it is the operator of the project.

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WOODSIDE PETROLEUM LIMITED – ASX WPL, CONOCOPHILLIPS, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC, OSAKA GAS COMPANY, SANTOS LIMITED – ASX STO, WOOD MACKENZIE, CREDIT SUISSE (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED

Sunrise gas no chance for Darwin LNG

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Original article by Angela Macdonald-Smith
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 21 : 9-Mar-18

Santos executive Bruce Clement says there is little prospect of gas from the Sunrise project in the Timor Sea being processed at the Darwin LNG plant. The Darwin facility and a greenfields plant in East Timor are the only options included in a new treaty on the maritime boundary between Australia and East Timor. The Darwin plant currently processes LNG from the Bayu-Undan gasfield, which is expected to be exhausted by 2022-23. Clement says the Barossa gas field is the only one that can be assured of supplying the Darwin plant after Bayu-Undan reaches the end of its life.

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SANTOS LIMITED – ASX STO, CONOCOPHILLIPS, SK GAS COMPANY LIMITED, WOODSIDE PETROLEUM LIMITED – ASX WPL, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC, OSAKA GAS COMPANY, PTTEP OFFSHORE INVESTMENT COMPANY LIMITED

Floating LNG not an option for Sunrise

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Original article by Angela Macdonald-Smith
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 17 : 8-Mar-18

Woodside Petroleum and ConocoPhillips have expressed disappointment that Australia and East Timor have not reached agreement on processing gas from the Sunrise gas field in the Timor Sea. An onshore processing facility in either Darwin or East Timor are the only options outlined in the new treaty on the maritime boundary between the two nations. Woodside has advocated the construction of a floating LNG plant. East Timor’s share of government revenue from Sunrise would be higher if the existing Darwin LNG plant is used.

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WOODSIDE PETROLEUM LIMITED – ASX WPL, CONOCOPHILLIPS, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC, PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION, CARNARVON PETROLEUM LIMITED – ASX CVN

Canberra takes $8bn bath on Timor deal

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Original article by Cameron Stewart
The Australian – Page: 2 : 7-Mar-18

Australia and East Timor will sign a treaty on the maritime boundary between the two nations in New York on March 7. The treaty is likely to change the revenue-sharing arrangement for oil and gas reserves in the Timor Sea from the current equal split to one that favours East Timor. This would reduce Australia’s revenue share from around $A20bn to $A12bn over the next 35 years. East Timor’s revenue share may increase further if LNG is processed at existing facilities in Darwin rather than in East Timor.

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AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE, WOODSIDE PETROLEUM LIMITED – ASX WPL, CONOCOPHILLIPS, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC, OSAKA GAS COMPANY, PERMANENT COURT OF ARBITRATION

Sunrise gas must come to us: Dili

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Original article by Paul Garvey
The Australian – Page: 20 : 10-Nov-17

The three partners in the Greater Sunrise LNG project have resumed negotiations with representatives of the Australian and Timor Leste governments. Processing gas from Sunrise at the Darwin LNG plant or a floating LNG facility remain the preferred option of the project’s partners, rather than a Timor Leste processing facility. Timor Leste Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri has indicated that his government would be open to options other than this one, although chief of staff Nelson Santos has stated that shipping gas to Timor Leste for processing must be considered.

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WOODSIDE PETROLEUM LIMITED – ASX WPL, COCOS (KEELING) ISLANDS SHIRE COUNCIL, ROYAL DUTCH SHELL PLC, EAST TIMOR. OFFICE OF THE PRIME MINISTER