Daniel Flitton; 26/11/09
East Timor has warned it will abandon a multibillion-dollar deal with Australia to exploit natural gas fields in the Timor Sea unless a pipeline is built to deliver the bounty directly to the impoverished nation. Francisco da Costa Monteiro, special adviser to East Timor’s secretary of state for natural resources, flew into Canberra yesterday for talks with federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson in an attempt to break the impasse. East Timor wants gas from the Greater Sunrise project to be piped about 200 kilometres to East Timor’s southern coastline, with a plant to be built for processing.A consortium led by resources company Woodside will develop the project.
See: http://www.theage.com.au/national/argument-over-pipeline-clouds-timor-gas-deal-20091125-jrtx.html