East Timor has long argued the border should sit halfway between it and Australia, placing most of the Greater Sunrise oil and gas field in their territory. In 2004 East Timor started negotiating ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Australia and East Timor signed a historic treaty drawing their maritime boundary Tuesday, ending years of bitter wrangling over billions of dollars of oil and gas riche… ...

State-owned Timor Gap owns a 56.6% stake in the field located about 140 km (87 miles) south of East Timor, while Australia's Woodside owns 33.4% and Osaka Gas holds 10%.

Newly independent East Timor is claiming a maritime boundary with Australia extending 200 nautical miles from its coast, which would eventually give it a greater percentage of the gas reserves in ...

East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Wednesday a deal with Australia on a vast fossil fuel project seen as crucial to the tiny nation's economic future will be struck by November.

East Timor is confident the Australian government will support plans for gas from the massive Greater Sunrise offshore field to be processed in Timor rather than Darwin, the country's petroleum ...

Australia on Tuesday appointed former Victoria state premier Steve Bracks as its special representative for the Greater Sunrise gas project in East Timor as both countries look to break a ...

Defence diplomacy gives island nations traction in the geopolitical rivalry between Beijing and Washington, but it is 'a ...

Australia’s Woodside Energy, which has the largest stake in the project after East Timor’s national oil company, said in response to questions Wednesday that the companies and governments ...

East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Wednesday a deal with Australia on a vast fossil fuel project seen as crucial to the tiny nation's economic future will be struck by November.

Greater Sunrise lies in waters between East Timor and Australia and holds an estimated 7.3 trillion cubic feet of gas which the Timorese urgently want to develop as the impoverished nation's ...