Woodside Power considers exporting LNG to East Timor Information

Woodside Power Group mentioned it was open to exporting fuel from the Larger Dawn mission to East Timor by way of an onshore liquefied pure fuel (LNG) export terminal on Thursday. 

In an investor assembly on Thursday, Meg O’Neill, CEO of Australian oil and fuel operator Woodside Power, launched the underdeveloped Dawn and Browse fuel tasks, emphasising the long-term want for fuel in Asia.

O’Neill mentioned on the briefing: “So the Timorese are very eager to have [technological] growth within the nation. And we recognise it’s an necessary nationwide mission for them. So we really feel prefer it’s acceptable to reopen the idea analysis, perceive the applied sciences, perceive the technical challenges.”

Woodside executives have beforehand most well-liked to move fuel from the Dawn mission to Darwin, in Australia’s Northern Territory, the place two LNG crops are already within the works, Argus Media reported. It talked about that a number of political modifications this 12 months have shifted Dawn’s outlook to make it unviable for the corporate. 

Based on Power Voice, when East Timor’s present administration took workplace in 2020, it started reconsidering the nation’s petroleum growth ambitions. This included the Larger Dawn mission after discovering the financial evaluation underlying the proposed tasks unviable.

Nevertheless, earlier this month, Jose Ramos-Horta’s victory in East Timor’s presidential runoff election in opposition to incumbent President Francisco “Lu-Olo” Guterres modified the outlook for the onshore greenfield LNG mission. 

The Dawn mission lies between East Timor and Northwest Australia. Regardless of the space, the corporate argued that the useful resource growth by transporting fuel to Darwin presents a less expensive choice than transporting it to East Timor, because the Australian metropolis has ports and LNG infrastructure. 

The federal government of East Timor sees Dawn, the biggest untapped fuel reserve underneath its management, as a nation-building initiative that it’ll use to develop the infrastructure wanted for fuel manufacturing.

Woodside beforehand acknowledged that LNG export services onshore in East Timor could be “commercially unviable”. The Australian operator introduced earlier this 12 months that it would solely take part within the upstream portion of the mission, permitting East Timor to cowl the prices of the onshore export facility and pipelines. On the time, these had been estimated round $14bn.