Kazu ConocoPhilips Vs Estado TL; “Rejistu Ona Iha Tribunal”

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Jornal Nacional Diario - Kinta-feira, 18 Outubru 2012 

Kazu kompania Internasional ConocoPhilips-Woodside kontra Estado Timor Leste (TL) hatama ona iha Tribunal Distrital Dili (TDD) no hein de’it ona Prosesu julgamentu. 

 Ofisial Justisa iha TDD, Kuarta (17/10) informa ba JON Diario katak, kazu ConocoPhilips entre estado Timor Leste ne’e, la’os kazu ida de’it, maibe kazu hamutuk 28 mak kompania esplorasaun mina tasi Timor halo hasoru estado TL. Kona ba bainhira mak halo julgamentu no advogado husi kompania ConocoPhilips ne’e rasik ofisial justisa ne’e informa detalhadu, tanba, ne’e sei prosesu nia laran. 

Kazu hamutuk 28 ne’e ho nia numeru prosesu mak hanesan, prosesu 70/civil/2011/RDD, 71/civil/2011 TDD aitor mak kompania Tolyo Timor Sea Recourse PTY.Ltd hasoru estado Timor Leste, prosesu 72/civil/2011/TDD, 73/civil/2011/TDD, 74/civil/2011/TDD, 74/civil/2011/TDD, 75/civil/2011/TDD, 76/civil/2011/TDD, 77/vicil/2011/TDD, 78/civil/2011/TDD, 79/civil/2011/TDD, 80/civil/2011/TDD, 81/civil/2011/TDD, 82/civil/2011/TDD, 83/civil/2011/TDD, autor husi ConocoPhilips hasoru estadu, prosesu 109/civil/2011/TDD, 110/civil/2011/TDD, autor husi kompania prosafe rigs ltd hasoru estadu TL. Prosesu 02/civil/2012/TDD kompania minimiza Limited hasoru estadu, prosesu 16/civil/2012/TDD, 17/civil/2012/TDD, 18/civil/2012/TDD autor husi kompania ConocoPhilips hasoru estadu TL, prosesu 39/civil/2012/TDD, 40/civil/2012/TDD, 41/civil/2012/TDD, 42/civil/2012/TDD, 43/civil/2012/TDD, 44/civil/2012/TDD autor mak ConocoPhilips hasoru estado Timor Leste, prosesu 65/civil2012/TDD autor mak Kompania sanros JPDA hasoru estado Timor Leste no ikus liu mak prosesu 86/civil/2012/TDD autor mak kompania Santos Limite hasoru estado Timor Leste. 

Problema entre kompania ConocoPhilips ho estado Timor Leste ne’e, tanba kompania la satisfas ho estado Timor Leste ne’ebe mak la selu impostu 50% ba kofre estado nian. 

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Australia sees decision on Timor Sea gas development within yr

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By Manolo Serapio Jr - Tue Oct 16, 2012 - REUTERS 

 * East Timor, Woodside have disagreed on how to develop gas 

 * Woodside says continuing meetings with East Timor 

SINGAPORE, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Australia anticipates a decision on the development of gas resources under the Timor Sea within the next year and expects East Timor to honour a treaty between the two countries to develop the gas, Australia's resources minister said. 

 Martin Ferguson was responding to local media reports that East Timor was on the brink of walking away from a treaty between the two nations to develop the resource. 

 "Clearly we're looking to move toward some decisions (on the Timor Sea gas field) over the next 12 months or so," Ferguson said in an interview with Reuters late Tuesday in Singapore. 

"Timor-Leste and Australia freely entered into a treaty some years ago. We will honour the treaty, we expect Timor-Leste to do the same." 

 Officials in East Timor, also known as Timor-Leste, could not immediately be reached for comment. Australian oil and gas firm Woodside Petroleum and East Timor have been stuck in a sometimes bitter debate on how to develop the Greater Sunrise gas fields for years. 

Woodside would prefer to build a floating liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant, which the company says would be the least costly option. East Timor favours an onshore plant within its borders which it has argued would provide more jobs and economic development. 

 The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday that a Timorese government lawyer was in Australia lobbying government officials in Canberra and had said that the small island nation could "easily find a new partner" to develop the gas. But Ferguson said East Timor had not communicated that intention to his department. 

"The comments made publicly were certainly not made privately in discussions with my department last week. (The lawyer) is not the Timor-Leste government, he is a representative of a U.S. law firm," Ferguson added. 

Woodside said Wednesday it is continuing talks with East Timor and met with the Timorese government in September, when it agreed on a timetable for a series of future meetings to share technical data on gas development plans.

 "We look forward to further discussion on the development of Greater Sunrise," a spokesman said in an emailed statement to Reuters. (Writing by Rebekah Kebede; Editing by Joseph Radford) .

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Timor may walk away from gas treaty with Australia

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Radio Australia 

 East Timor may walk away from its treaty with Australia and Woodside Petroleum over the development of oil and gas fields in the Timor Sea. 

The three parties are signatories to an agreement that governs the rights each have to the resources under the Timor Sea. 

Timor has been pushing for a pipeline to be built from the Greater Sunrise gas field in the Sea to a yet-to-be-built processing plant on its south coast.

 It believes the pipeline would create much needed jobs and infrastructure for East Timor.

 But resources giant Woodside says this would not be commercially viable, wanting to build an offshore floating platform instead. 

 Timorese government lawyer Pierre-Richard Prosper has been in Australia lobbying government officials in Canberra to support Dili's position over a pipeline.

 "This is not simply an issue between Timor and the operators," he said. 

 "When you look at the treaty there is also another party, that is the Government of Australia, so they have a voice, and they have the opportunity to speak up and cite a preference." 

Mr Prosper says East Timor is mulling leaving the treaty when it expires in February next year. 

"Timor could easily find a new partner that would be willing to have a pipeline to come through," he said. "

Up in the northern part of Asia there is a big country there that I am sure would be very interested in an opportunity to have some gas."

 Changing boundaries? 

 East Timor would spark a battle for a new maritime boundary if it walks away from its treaty with Australia and Woodside Petroleum. 

The boundary presently in place between East Timor and Australia only exists because of the oil and gas treaty. 

 An international law expert at the Australian National University, Professor Donald Rothwell, says the changes may be drastic. 

 "There could in fact be quite a radical shift in the way in which the boundaries are aligned if a permanent boundary were settled," he said.

 He says the shift could also affect both countries resources and fishing rights. 

 "That would extend to both sea bed resource rights, living column resource rights, such as fish and also other rights to associated activities within that region which could prove to be quite valuable in terms of biodiversity for example," he said. 

 Professor Rothwell says the relationship between Australia and East Timor will also be at stake should Dili leave the treaty.

 "When a treaty has been concluded in good faith between two countries, if one of those countries is to unilaterally break the terms of that treaty, that in my view does have a significant impact upon the ongoing relationship between two counties and will inevitably lead to a lack of confidence as to the ability of those countries to reach a new treaty arrangement," he said. 

The Australian Foreign Minister and Resources Minister have declined to comment on the issues raised by East Timor. .

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