Ramos-Horta calls for Sunrise truce

** FILE ** East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta speaks with media in Dili, East Timor's capital, in this April 5, 2007 file photo.   East Timor President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jose Ramos-Horta was wounded in a pre-dawn attack on his home Monday morning, Feb. 11, 2008, an army spokesman said. (AP Photo/Ed Wray, File)

Timor-Leste President: Jose Ramos-Horta has called on the government to resume talks with Woodside

Timor-Leste President Jose Ramos-Horta has called on the government to not abandon talks with Australian giant Woodside Petroleum over the development of the Greater Sunrise project in the Timor Sea.

Last week Secretary of State Agio Pereira said Woodside’s operations on Greater Sunrise had been suspended since talks between Dili and the Australian company stalled over Woodside’s preferred development concept for the field.

Woodside wants to use floating liquefied natural gas technology to bring the field on stream but the government has instead insisted that the company should build a pipeline to process the gas onshore, a move Woodside argues would cost A$5 billion (US$5 billion) more than its FLNG concept.

Pereira said last week that, for the time being, Woodside would be…

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