East Timor and Australia’s Woodside Energy have signed a cooperation agreement to explore transporting gas from the large, undeveloped Greater Sunrise field, located in the Timor Sea between Timor-Leste and Australia, to a new LNG plant in East Timor. Woodside and East Timor’s Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ministry stated that the agreement requires the parties to assess the commercial and technological viability of a 5 Mt/year LNG project, with production planned to start between 2032 and 2035. The project will also include a gas processing plant (Woodside Energy press release, 25/11/2025).
In parallel with the feasibility study, fiscal, regulatory, and legal frameworks to support the upstream development of the fields will need to be negotiated between the Sunrise Joint Venture, East Timor, and Australian governments, according to the statement.