RE: Woodside makes blunder with East Timor LNG comments2 Dec 2022 08:20
Would disagree that it’s a blunder, as from yesterday’s report, the TL were already effectively told that they would need to find their own funding to send the gas to Beaco. Meg O’ Neill laid it out very clearly that Woodside would not be committing if it went across the Timor Trench.
TL would recognise that today’s announcement was simply Meg trying to get a few PR points from Oz.gov when the reality is as before, she won’t be spending the big $$’s to assist a development on TL. Woodside’s spending budget already set at c.$6.5B for 2023.
From LNG yesterday :
“So we feel like it’s appropriate to reopen the concept evaluation, understand the technologies, understand the technical challenges,” she said.
Also, East Timor could seek international funding to help pay for the greenfield LNG infrastructure.
“Timor Leste has a lot of international friends, and international friends may want to help with some of that infrastructure that doesn’t exist today in Timor that would exist if we went to Darwin,” O’Neill said.
Strongly suspect that TL will further recognise the benefits of going to Darwin.