Index to Articles about Oil and Gas
Índise ba artigu sira kona-ba Mina rai no gás naturál

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"LHB" indicates that the article was published in the La'o Hamutuk Bulletin. Most other items are press releases, reports, or submissions to public officials.
Items are in reverse chronological order, with the most recent listed first.

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• Background and overview

• Sunrise LNG

• Tasi Mane petroleum infrastructure project and TimorGAP

• Other petroleum projects (Bayu-Undan, Cova, Kitan, etc.)

• Oil electric power plants (Hera, Betano)

• The resource curse / Malisan rekursu

• Petroleum Laws (regime)

• Petroleum Fund / Fundu Petrolíferu

• Mining

• Transparency / Transparénsia

• Maritime boundary with Australia

• Other petroleum issues

• Environment

Background and overview

• Presentation: The Oil Industry and the Prevention of Climate Change in the Context of TL (also PDF and article) (6/24)

• Timor-Leste 2021 Economic Survey: The End of Petroleum Income academic paper
  Timor-Leste: Survei Ekonómiku 2021: Reseita petrolíferu hotu ona (10/21)
  Also blog Timor-Leste will soon be running on fumes (10/21)

• Paper After the oil runs dry: Timor-Leste economics and government finances (5/19)

• Oilwatch Southeast Asia Regional Meeting presentations and statement (also Tetum) (7/10)

• LH presentation The Current Situation in Timor-Leste (2/10)

• OilWeb comprehensive data archive on Timor-Leste's oil and gas, including now-defunct TSDA and Timor Sea Office websites (11/08)
  Include index pages on Background topics, History, Finances, Reserves, Companies and many other topics

• LHB What is LNG? (8/08)

• Sunrise LNG in Timor-Leste: Dreams, Realities and Challenges (2/08)

• Fourth Constitutional Government of RDTL: Structure, Program, Budget and members (10/07)

• New Secretary of State for Natural Resources Alfredo Pires describes his plans at La'o Hamutuk public meeting (9/07)

• LHB Restructuring Petroleum Regulation in Timor-Leste. (6/07)

• Petroleum in Timor-Leste (presentation to the International Forum on Petroleum, Human Rights and Environmental Reparation, Ecuador) (10/06)

• Oil in Timor-Leste: A discussion of economic, ecological and moral debt. (Chapter written for Oilwatch by La'o Hamutuk) (9/05)

• LHB Timor Sea Oil and Gas Update (comprehensive history, technical, political and financial overview) (8/03)

• Surat Popular: Our Oil, Our Future

• LHB Chronology of Oil and Gas in the Timor Sea (12/02)

• LHB Profiles of oil companies involved in the Timor Sea (7/02)

• LHB With Independence, What Changes for the Timor Gap? (5/02)

Sunrise LNG

• Oil and gas projects (English/Tetum), with text of most Production-Sharing Contracts and other project-related information and news (9/24)

• Index page on Timor-Leste buys into the Sunrise Oil and Gas Project (11/21)

• Chronology and index 2016-2020: Compulsory Conciliation leads to a Maritime Boundary Treaty between Australia and TL (6/20)

• Misinformation and Facts about the Greater Sunrise Project (PDF or blog)
  Informasaun sala no faktu sira kona-ba projetu Greater Sunrise (PDF ka blog) (3/19)

• Aprezentasaun LH ba Sosiedade Sivíl kona-ba Projetu Greater Sunrise (PDF ka PowerPoint) (2/19)

• Programa Radio Igualdade: Projetu Sunrise no Tasi Mane (2/19)

• LH Blog: Buying part of Greater Sunrise from ConocoPhillips:What does it mean for Timor-Leste and the Pipeline?
  Sosa Partisipasaun iha Greater Sunrise husi ConocoPhillips: Signifika saida mai Timor-Leste? Signifika saida kona-ba kadoras?
  LHB Sosa Partisipasaun iha Greater Sunrise husi ConocoPhillips (10/18)

• Article The Timor-Leste-Australia Maritime Boundary Treaty (also PDF) (3/18)

• Index page on CMATS and maritime boundaries 2012-2016 (also Tetum) (3/18)

• Index page on the proposed LNG plant for Sunrise gas in Beaçu (1/16)
  LH blog Stop spending good money on faint hopes for Beaçu LNG (mos Tetum no Komunikadu Imprensa) (3/15)

• Index page on the Greater Sunrise LNG Project (also Tetum) recent developments, with links to history, references and documents (4/15)

• ABC: Taxing Times in Timor transcript of TV documentary and LH response (10/12)

• Cowboys, Ogres and Donors: A Decade of Corporate Social Responsibility in Practice by ex-Woodside representative Mandy Whyte (5/11)

• Discussion of double-counting Sunrise gas in the Strategic Development Plan (5/10)

• LHB Will Sunrise LNG be in or for Timor-Leste? (11/08)

• LHB: La'o Hamutuk brings LNG information to south coast (11/08)

• LHB What is LNG? (8/08)

• LH book: Sunrise LNG in Timor-Leste: Dreams, Realities and Challenges (2/08)

Tasi Mane petroleum infrastructure project and TimorGAP

• Timor-Leste's TimorGAP national oil company (9/23)

• Aprezentasaun Risku husi Projetu Tasi Mane ba Meiu Ambiente no Finansa Estadu (mos PDF) (7/20)

• Index page on Timor-Leste buying into the Sunrise oil and gas project (11/21)

• Aprezentasaun Implikasaun husi Projetu Greater Sunrise no Projetu Tasi Mane ba Sustentabilidade Finansa Estadu (mos PDF) (6/19)
  Artigu Implikasaun Husi Projetu Greater Sunrise no Projetu Tasi Mane ba Sustentabilidade Finansas Estadu (5/20)

• LH letter to UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples on Impacts of the Tasi Mane Project on the environment, land, and future sustainability of community people’s lives (4/19)

• Programa Radio Igualdade: Projetu Sunrise no Tasi Mane (2/19)

• Misinformation and Facts about the Greater Sunrise Project (PDF or blog)
  Informasaun sala no faktu sira kona-ba projetu Greater Sunrise (PDF ka blog) (1/19)

• Aprezentasaun Informasaun Importante ba MP sira (also PowerPoint) kona-ba Sunrise, Tasi Mane no orsamentu estadu (12/18)

• LH Blog: Buying part of Greater Sunrise from ConocoPhillips:What does it mean for Timor-Leste and the Pipeline?
  Sosa Partisipasaun iha Greater Sunrise husi ConocoPhillips: Signifika saida mai Timor-Leste? Signifika saida kona-ba kadoras? (10/18)

• Relatóriu peskiza hosi LH kona-ba Impaktu hosi Konstrusaun Aero-Portu Suai ba komunidade sira (10/16)

• Suai Supply Base (also Tetum) comprehensive article and analysis with many documents, including proposed EIAs (10/17)

• Blog: Suai Supply Base contract cancelled; it’s time to cancel the project. (6/16)

• Environmental Impacts of the proposed Betano oil refinery (5/16)

• Blog: Hyundai E&C’s history of corruption (12/15)

• Tasi Mane southwest coast petroleum infrastructure project (also Tetum) (6/16)

• Social and Economic Impacts of the Tasi Mane project presentation in English (also PDF) or Tetum (also PDF) (10/15)

• Aprezentasaun ba TLSA Projetu Tasi Mane: Mehi Ukun-Nain no Obstákulu sira (Refinaria iha Timor-Leste) (mos PDF) (7/15)

• Proposed LNG plant for Sunrise gas in Beaçu
  LH letter protesting contract award for LNG plant preliminary design
  LH Blog Stop spending good money on faint hopes for Beaçu LNG (3/15)

• LH letter asking for court audit of TimorGAP (2/15)

• LH Submisaun ba Prezidente kona-ba ezbosu Dekretu-Lei kona-ba Rai no Suai Supply Base (10/14)

• Aprezentasaun ba TLSA Projetu Supply Base Suai bele hadi’ak Ekonomia Timor-Leste ka lae? (also PDF) (7/13)

• Blog: Wading deeper into an oily swamp about IAB appointments (7/12)

• Blog: Highway dreams -- and their costs (10/11)

• Blog: SERN seeks consultant to write Tasi Mane EIA (9/11)

Other petroleum projects

• Oil and gas projects (English/Tetum), with texts of most Production-Sharing Contracts and other project-related information and news (9/24)

• Aprezentasaun ba TLSA Entre Esperansa ho Realidade ba Perfurasaun Mina Rai iha Covalima (mós PDF) (7/23)

• LH second submission to the Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority on pipelines related to the Barossa gas project and CCS at Bayu-Undan (6/23)

• Presentation Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) at Bayu-Undan (also PDF) (12/22)

• LHB Konsultasaun iha perfurasaun mina no gás iha Covalima (12/22)

• Aprezentasaun Kaptura no Rai Hela Karbonu: Solusaun ka Kolonializmu Karbonu? (mos PDF) (7/22)

• Blog TimorGAP begins exploring Pualaca Block by itself / TimorGAP Hahú Esplorasaun Mesak iha Bloku Pualaca (6/22)

• Programa Radio Igualdade: Kaptura no rai hela karbonu (CCS) iha Bayu-Undan (3/22)

• Press release: Santos proposal for CCS at Bayu-Undan is not a true or honest solution
  Proposta Santos nian ba harii CCS iha Bayu-Undan La’ós Solusaun Loos no La Onestu (3/22)

• LH submission to the Northern Territory Environment Protection Authority on pipelines related to the Barossa gas project and CCS at Bayu-Undan (2/22)

• Presentation Carbon Capture in Timor-Leste: Is it Carbon Colonialism? (also PDF) (11/21)
  Video of ECNT webinar.

• LH submission to ANPM on the environmental license for the Rusa-1 onshore test oil well in Ainaro
  Blog: Onshore oil drilling imminent despite serious concerns (9/21)

• Blog Carbon Capture and Storage under the Timor Sea: Climate Change Prevention or Carbon Colonialism?
  Kaptura no rai hela karbonu iha Timor-Leste nia Tasi Okos: Solusaun ba Mudansa Klimátika ka Kolonializmu Karbonu? (7/21)

• Timor-Leste 2021 Economic Survey academic paper (6/21)

• Presentation As Bayu-Undan dries up: challenges and opportunities / Bainhira Bayu-Undan sei maran: dezafiu no oportunidade sira (Also English PowerPoint, Tetum PowerPoint, English paper, Tetum paper) (11/17)

• Eni's Kitan offshore oil project in JPDA 06-105, with links to many documents (8/16)

• Blog: Oil production inevitably declines (also Tetum) describing the implications of depleting Kitan (3/14)

• LH submission on EIS and EMP for Eni's further exploratory drilling in S06-06 (10/10)

• Eni's Cova exploratory drilling, with links to many documents (9/10)

• Reliance exploratory drilling in Block K (English/Tetum), with media articles and links to many documents (9/10)

• LH submission (also Tetum) on TOR for Environmental Impact Statement (also Tetum) for Eni's further exploratory drilling in S06-03 (9/10)

• LH submission on Environmental Impact Statement for Eni's Cova-1 exploratory drilling (7/10) and Eni's response (also Tetum) (8/10)

• LH submission on Environmental Impact Assessment and Management Plans for Reliance's exploratory drilling in Block K of Timor-Leste exclusive offshore area (6/10), Tetum summary (7/10), and Reliance's response (8/10)

• LH submission on Eni's proposed Environmental Management Plan (also Tetum) for the GeoStreamer seismic survey (6/10)

• Seismic exploration environmental management plans from Eni and Reliance, with submissions from La'o Hamutuk (6/10)

• LH submission regarding Environmental Plan for Eni Marine Seismic Survey (6/07)

Oil-fired power plants

• Heavy oil power plants index and analysis for 2011-17 (Eng. and Tetum) (2/18)

• LH letter (also Tetum) protesting award of school furniture contract to Chinese Nuclear Industry Construction Company No. 22 (10/13)

• LH presentation Polítika enerjetika no investimentu públiku at Parliamentary budget seminar (Tetum) (1/13)

• Leaked reports from ELC/Bonifica supervising the construction of this project: September 2010, October 2010, November 2010, January 2011, February 2011,  April 2011,  June 2011,  Nov.2011, Jan.2012 (4/12)

• Heavy oil power plants overall index (Eng. and Tetum) (9/11)

• Heavy oil power plants index and analysis for 2010 (Eng. and Tet.) (6/11)

• Deloitte review of EDTL, also Executive Summary,  Portuguese and 6MB original. (5/11)

• LH letter to Parliament about inadequate budget appropriation to cover increased payment obligations during 2011 (1/11)

• Cornerstone Laying for Hera heavy oil power plant (Eng. and Tet.) (1/10)

• Letter from Prime Minister to Parliament redesigning the project (Port.) (11/09)

• Heavy oil power plants index and analysis for 2008-2009 (Eng. and Tet.) (11/09)

• LHB: Heavy Oil Power Plants: Project without Process (6/09)

• Request to Provedor (Ombudsman) to investigate this project (also Tetum) (4/09)

• Letter to Ministry of Finance asking for information on tender (3/09)

• LH map of proposed system (also Tetum) (3/09)

• NGO Petition to Parliament (also Tetum) (1/09)

• La'o Hamutuk submission to Parliament  (also Tetum) (12/08)

• Capital expenditures for electricity project in 2009 state budget (Eng. and Tet.) (12/08)

• LHB Heavy Oil Power Plants - $390 million over four years  (also Tetum) (11/08)

• Request for Proposals and TOR for legal advice from Ministry of Finance (9/08)

• Invitation to bid from Ministry of Finance (6/08)

• Proposal from Chinese Nuclear Company #22 (6/08)

Resource Curse / Malisan Rekursu

• Academic article The Resource Curse in Timor-Leste (La maldición de los recursos en Timor-Leste in Spanish) (8/22)

• Presentation The Resource Curse in Timor-Leste (also PDF or video) (3/22)

• Bobby Boye: Convict, Advisor and Fraud (also Tetum) with many links (1/21)

• Presentation Can a Sovereign Wealth Fund Prevent the Resource Curse? The case of Timor-Leste, given at Mozambique Conference on Natural Gas for Economic Transformation and Inclusive Growth (also PPT, 8/19)

• Aprezentasaun Informasaun Importante ba MP sira (mos PowerPoint) kona-ba Sunrise, Tasi Mane no OJE 2019 (12/18)

• Paper After the oil runs dry: Timor-Leste economics and government finances (10/18)

• Paper Malisan Rekursu iha Timor-Leste: Hosi Jestaun Fundu Petrolíferu no polítika orsamentál (10/17)

• Paper As Bayu-Undan dries up: challenges and opportunities / Bainhira Bayu-Undan sei maran: dezafiu no oportunidade sira (10/17)

• Aprezentasaun Malisan Rekursu iha Timor-Leste: Hosi Jestaun Fundu Petrolíferu no polítika orsamentál (mós PowerPoint, 6/17)

• Presentation As Bayu-Undan dries up: challenges and opportunities / Bainhira Bayu-Undan sei maran: dezafiu no oportunidade sira (Also English PowerPoint, Tetum PowerPoint, 6/17)

• Presentation: Consequences of TL's Dependency on Oil and Gas (also 41MB PowerPoint with audio) (4/16)

• Blog: Indicators have Consequences
  Sinál perigu sei iha konsekuénsia (3/16)

• Oil running out is reality, not propaganda (LH letter responding to Parliamentary comments) (also blog and Tetum) (6/15)

• Can the Petroleum Fund Exorcise the Resource Curse from TL? (also PDF) (9/14 and 6/15))

• How Long will the Petroleum Fund Carry Timor-Leste? (also Tetum) (6/15)

• Timor-Leste's oil and gas are going fast (also blog)
  Mina-rai no gas Timor-Leste nian besik hotu ho lalais (4/15)

• It takes more than money to achieve development: lessons from TL presentation to ESCAP conference (also Ppt) (10/14)

• Blog: Timor-Leste has been robbed! ka Nauk ona Timor-Leste (8/14)

• LH letter asking for court audit of TimorGAP (2/15)

• CPLP should not Admit Equatorial Guinea (7/14)

• Presentation to Chatham House New Petroleum Producers Discussion Group on engaging with society (5/14)

• Timor-Leste: The Political Economy of a Rentier State by Guteriano Neves (7/13)

• Blog: Oil production inevitably declines (also Tetum) describing the implications of depleting Kitan (3/14)

• Going for Broke editorial from Petroleum Economist magazine (3/13)

• Aprezentasaun: Malisan Rekursu no Korrupsaun (11/12)

• Blog: Wading deeper into an oily swamp about IAB appointments (7/12)

• Blog: Ten billion dollars is a tempting target (7/12)

• Blog: How Timor-Leste got Ten Billion Dollars ... and how Quickly we will Spend it all. (5/12)

• Blog: Petroleum regulators (ANP) get themselves better health care (also Tetum) (3/12)
  Reply to comments on ANP health care (also Tetum) (4/12)

• If you spend $400 million, you don't have it any more (3/12)

• LH comments at Rio+20 Green Economy for Sustainable Development workshop (11/11)

• Orsamentu Jeral Estadu 2012 ha’belit liu tan Malisan Rekursu ba Timor-Leste (10/11)

• Some thoughts from LH for the Regional EITI Conference (also Tetum) (8/11)

• La'o Hamutuk submission on draft TL country report for process on Aid Effectiveness in Fragile States (5/11)

• La'o Hamutuk comment (also Tetum and Tetum slideshow) on UNDP 2011 National Human Development Report for Timor-Leste (5/11)

• Submission from La'o Hamutuk on 2011 budget (12/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Impaktu Eksploitasaun Petroleu (6 MB Tetum MP3) (8/10)

• Oilwatch Southeast Asia Regional Meeting report and presentations (7/10)

• Submission from La'o Hamutuk on 2010 mid-year budget rectification (6/10)

• 2010 mid-year budget rectification (9/10)

• Strategic Development Plan (also Tetum) (5/10)

• LHB: Donor, oil and other money in Timor-Leste since 1999 (2/10)

• LHB: Petroleum Fund: Estimated Sustainable Income (6/09)

• LHB: Diversify Petroleum Fund Investment? Not Now. (6/09)

• Program Radio Igualidade kona ba Malisan Rekursu (14 MB Tetum MP3) (5/09)

• Orsamento Estadu 2009: Prudente ka lae? Artigu tolu husi jornal hakerek husi La'o Hamutuk no Vice-Ministru Finansas (4/09)

• LH analysis of prudence and sustainability in calculating the Estimated Sustainable Income (also Tetum) (3/09)

• LH Submission on TL budget for 2009 (also Tetum), (12/08)

• LHB Editorial: Budget Invites Resource Curse (also Tetum) (11/08)

• LH statements at Parliamentary anti-corruption conference (9/08)

• Mid-Year Budget is First Step to Resource Curse (Statement by Timor-Leste Transparency Network) (7/08)

• LHB Return our Natural Resources (report from Oilwatch Forum) (3/07)

• LHB Timor-Leste will be one of the most oil-dependent countries in the world (11/05)
  Response from Prime Minister;  LH comment (4/06)

• Timor-Leste participates in International Day of Action against the Shwe Gas Project in Burma (10/05)
  LHB article (11/05)

• Oil in Timor-Leste: A discussion of economic, ecological and moral debt. (Chapter written for Oilwatch by La'o Hamutuk) (9/05)

• Can Timor Leste Avoid the Resource Curse? (Paper presented to the workshop on Transparency and Accountability in Government in 3/04).
  An updated version of this article was an LHB Editorial (10/04). This has also been made into a PowerPoint presentation and a Bulletin Reprint.

• LHB Timor-Leste Exchange Visit: A Nigerian Perspective and Timor-Leste Learns from Nigeria’s Experience (10/04)
  Report from Timor-Leste Exchange with Nigeria (9/04)

• LHB Oil and Gas Victims Protest Unmet Promises in SE Asia (3/04)

• LHB With Money, Oil Also Brings Problems (7/02)

Petroleum Laws (regime)  (see also Petroleum Fund)

• Summary of oil and gas projects in Timor-Leste, with links to most contracts (9/24)

• Timor-Leste's TimorGAP national oil company (9/23)

• Regulating Onshore Petroleum Operations (9/21)

• Blog Who should grant environmental licenses for mining and petroleum?
  Sé mak bele emite Lisensa Ambientál ba petróleu no mineiru? (9/18)

• LH letter asking for court audit of TimorGAP (Eng/Tetum) (2/15)

• LH submission to ANP consultation on draft Regs for TL Exclusive Area and Model Onshore and Offshore Production Sharing Contracts (7/14)

• Blog: Private Public Consultations (on ANP TLEA technical regulations) (5/14)

• Blog: Checking the Petroleum Regulators (mos Kontrolu ba Reguladór Petróleu sira) about
  Court of Appeals Audit Report on the National Petroleum Authority (also Portuguese) (4/14)

• Blog: Petroleum regulators (ANP) get themselves better health care (also Tetum) (3/12)

• LH Submission to President of the Republic on the proposed national oil company decree-law (6/11)

• LH Submission on the draft Institute for Petroleum and Geology (IPG) law and bylaws (11/10)
  Enacted text of IPG Decree-Law No. 33/2012 (Portuguese) (7/12)

• LH Submission to SERN on the draft national oil company law and bylaws (11/10)

• LH Submission on TL budget for 2009 (also Tetum) (12/08)

• Topic page on RDTL State Budget for 2009, with links (Eng. and Tet.) (12/08)

• LH Submission on draft decree-law to establish a National Petroleum Authority. including background and final Decree-Law 20/2008 (also Portuguese) ( updated 3/12)

• LH submission on proposed Technical Regulations  for the Joint Petroleum Development Area, and background.  Revised draft of technical regulations (6/08)

• LH letter to Secretary of State for Natural Resources (also Tetum) asking for public consultation on the National Petroleum Authority decree-law (5/08)

• Sunrise LNG in Timor-Leste: Dreams, Realities and Challenges (2/08)

• State Secretariat for Natural Resource portions of 2008 budget (2/08)

• New Secretary of State for Natural Resources Alfredo Pires describes his plans at La'o Hamutuk public meeting (9/07)

• Second LH Submission on draft decree-laws on restructuring petroleum regulation (7/07)
  LHB article summarizing this submission (9/07)

• LHB Restructuring Petroleum Regulation in Timor-Leste (6/07)

• LH Submission on Timor-Leste Content Policy and Guidelines for oil companies operating here. Also Public Consultation and other submissions (6/07)
  LHB Editorial based on the submission (9/07)

• LH Submission on draft decree-laws creating a national Energy Policy Council, TL National Oil Company, and National Regulatory Authority for Petroleum activities. Also description of consultation process with links to texts of proposed laws in English and Portuguese, as well as other documents (4/07)

• LHB Timor-Leste Establishes Leaky Petroleum Regime (11/05)
  Response from Prime Minister; LH comment (4/06)

• Petroleum Regime laws enacted, with English and Portuguese texts of laws (8/05)

• Public consultation regarding the proposed TL Petroleum Regime
  Includes extensive LH submission and many other documents and submissions (9/04)

Petroleum Fund / Fundu Petrolíferu (see also Transparency below / hare mós Transparénsia iha kraik)

• Index to Petroleum Fund operations, including management agreements, Quarterly and Annual Reports and other information (Eng. and Tetum.) (9/24)

• Aprezentasaun Dependensia ba Fundu Petróleo no Alternativa (mós PDF) (3/23)

• Timor-Leste 2021 Economic Survey academic paper (6/21)
  Also blog Timor-Leste will soon be running on fumes (10/21)

• Sustentabilidade Finansa Estadu no Fundu Petrolíferu (12/20)

• Webinar presentation for Mozambique: Can a Sovereign Wealth Fund Prevent the Resource Curse? The experience of Timor-Leste (also PDF and 273 MB video) (8/20)

• Blog: Global economic developments hit Timor-Leste hard (also PDF) (9/20)
  Akontesimentu Ekonomia Global fó impaktu boot ba Timor-Leste (mos PDF)

• Paper: Implications of recent changes to Timor-Leste’s Petroleum Fund (5/20)

• Radio Igualdade: Investimentu Fundu Petrolifeiru (MP3 3/20)

• Presentation Implications of recent changes to Timor-Leste’s Petroleum Fund (also PDF) (6/19)

• Confronting the state's temporary cash flow problem / Enfrenta problema finansial temporáriu; LH Submission to Parliament (also Tetum) and LH Press release (also Tetum) (9/18)

• Aprezentasaun Malisan Rekursu iha Timor-Leste: Hosi Jestaun Fundu Petrolíferu no polítika orsamentál (mós PowerPoint, 6/17)

• Presentation Timor-Leste’s oil wealth: financing government, building for development and providing for its people (also Powerpoint) (5/17)

• Making the Oil Companies Pay What They Owe about assessing unpaid taxes (2/20)

• LH submission (also blog and Tetum mós blog) on proposed 2016 Budget Rectification (7/16)

• How long will the Petroleum Fund carry Timor-Leste? index page (6/15)
  with paper (also Tetum) and other materials

• Can the Petroleum Fund Exorcise the Resource Curse from TL? (also PDF) (8/14 and 6/15)

• How long will Timor-Leste's Petroleum Fund Last? (update)  (also blog) (6/15)

• Timor-Leste's oil and gas are going fast (also blog)

• Mina-rai no gas Timor-Leste nian besik hotu ho lalais (4/15)

• Presentation Is Fiscal Policy Sustainable? (also PDF); Polítika Fiskál Sustentavel ka lae? (also PDF) (3/15)

• LH letter urging consideration of fallen oil prices when revising the 2015 State Budget (also Tetum) (2/15)
  Ministry of Finance response to LH letter (also Tetum) (3/15)

• Blog: Oil production inevitably declines (also Tetum) describing the implications of depleting Kitan (3/14)

• LH Blog on presentation to TLSA: How Long will the Petroleum Fund Carry Timor-Leste? (7/13)
  Also Excel spreadsheet, PowerPoint and PDF (7/13)

• ABC: Taxing Times in Timor transcript of TV documentary
  LH Blog: Filling gaps in Taxing Times (10/12)

• Blog: Wading deeper into an oily swamp about IAB appointments (7/12)

• Blog: Ten billion dollars is a tempting target (7/12)

• Blog: How Timor-Leste got Ten Billion Dollars ... and how Quickly we will Spend it all. (5/12)

• Revising the Petroleum Fund Law: background, analysis, concerns, submissions proposed revisions (also Tetum) (7/12)

• Banking and Payments Authority submission to Parliament on revising the PF Law (also Tetum) (7/11)

• LH Submission to the Ministry of Finance (also PDF) on proposed revisions to the Petroleum Fund Law (also Tetum)  (11/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Proposta revisaun Lei Fundu Petroliferu (6 MB Tetum MP3) (10/10)

• Radio Igualidade: Tentasaun Kambalasu Fundu Petroliferu (6 MB Tetum MP3) (10/10)

• Failed attempt to scam $1.2 billion from Petroleum Fund (Eng. and Tet.) (10/10)

• Timor-Leste (first) Annual EITI Report for 2008 (also Tetum)

• LH Submission to Parliament on 2010 General State Budget and corrective letter (also Tetum) (11/09)

• LHB: Petroleum Fund: Estimated Sustainable Income and Diversify Petroleum Fund Investment? Not Now (6/09)

• LH analysis of prudence and sustainability in calculating the Estimated Sustainable Income (also Tetum) (3/09)

• LH Submission on TL budget for 2009 (also Tetum), (12/08)

• Topic page on RDTL State Budget for 2009, with links (Eng. and Tet.) (12/08)

• LHB Editorial: Rectified 2008 Budget Invites Resource Curse (also Tetum) (11/08)

• LHB Budgeting for the Future (also Tetum) (11/08)

• Court rules mid-year budget violates petroleum fund law (11/08)

• Petroleum Fund and revenue-related portions of 2008 RDTL State budget (Eng. and Tet.)  (2/08)

• Flyer for La'o Hamutuk all-party debate on managing petroleum money, and report on that debate (6/07)

• LHB analysis of Petroleum Fund (3/07), including glossary and comparison with Norway's Fund.

• LHB NGOs elect Petroleum Fund Consultative Council reps (4/06)

• LHB review of first PF quarterly report (12/05).

• Parliamentary debate and passage of Petroleum Fund Act with Submissions from La'o Hamutuk (also Portuguese) and others and the final version of the Act (also Portuguese) (6/05)

• Public Consultation on the draft TL Petroleum Fund Act. Includes LH Submission (also Portuguese) and submissions from other NGOs (3/05)

• Public Consultation regarding the TL Petroleum Fund Discussion Paper. Includes LH Submission and many other documents and submissions. (12/04)

• LHB Oil money requires good management by Joseph Stiglitz (1/04)

Mining

• Mining Projects index page (7/24)

• Creating a Mining Code / Dezenvolve Kódigu Mineiru ba Timor-Leste (7/24)

• Regulating Onshore Petroleum Operations (3/21)

• Submisaun ba Parlamentu Nasional kona-ba Proposta Lei de Kódigu Minériu  (10/19)

  LHB Polítika Esploitasaun Minériu iha Timor-Leste
  TL's mineral exploitation policy (5/18)

• Mining law: Permission to dive underground, damaging priceless land
  Lei Mineiru: Lisensa ba luku iha rai okos, estraga rai murak  (5/17)

• LH submission to Parliament on the proposed Mining Code
  Submisaun ba Parlamentu Nasional kona-ba Proposta Lei de Kódigu Minériu  (4/17)

Transparency / Transparénsia (see also Petroleum Fund and Regime / hare mos Fundu Petrolíferu no rejime petrolíferu)

• Aprezentasaun Rezultadu OBS 2023 (mós PDF) (8/24)
  Programa Radio Igualdade Open Budget Survey (9/24)

• Results of the 2023 Open Budget Survey for Timor-Leste, including Country report on Timor-Leste, open letter (also Tetum), press release (also Tetum), questionnaire, global report, blog (also Tetum) (6/24)

• Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Timor-Leste index page, with reports for 2008-2021 (8/24)

• Presentation Timor-Leste in the Open Budget Survey (also PDF) (10/23)

• LHB Observasaun kona-ba transparénsia iha governasaun durante tinan 2022 (12/22)

• Blog Transparency requires information, not just pretty pictures / Transparénsia Ezije Informasaun, La’ós Imajen Furak De’it (8/22)

• La'o Hamutuk Press release on 2021 Open Budget Survey (also Tetum), blog (also Tetum) and Tetum video Estadu Timor-Leste Tenke Pratika Diák Liu Tan Transparénsia no Partisipasaun Publiku (7/22)

• LHB Lei Enkuadramentu Orsamentál (1/22)

• LHB Presiza iha Progresu Liu Tan Atu Hadi’ak Transparénsia (OBS)  (12/20)

• La'o Hamutuk press release on 2019 Open Budget Survey (also Tetum) (4/20)
  Blog: TL Laiha Mudansa iha Transparénsia Orsamentál tuir Klasifikasaun Internasionál
  Blog: Timor-Leste unimproved in 2019 Open Budget Survey

• LHB Presiza hadi’ak liután Transparénsia Timor-Leste nian (11/18)

• LHB Asesu ba Dokumentu Ofisiál sira: Direitu Demokrátiku Báziku ida
  Access to official documents (5/18)

• Transparénsia Orsamentál dalan ba Boa Governasaun iha Timor-Leste (Powerpoint ka PDF) (5/18)

• LH/IBP press release As progress toward global budget transparency stalls for the first time in a decade, Timor-Leste scores “low” in providing information to its citizens about how public money is used (also Tetum)  (4/18)

• LH blog: TL falls short on Open Budget Index 2015 (also Tetum, English PDF, Tetum PDF, scorecard) (9/15)

• LH Blog: Transparency Initiative gets a little more opaque (also Tetum) (2/15)

• LH letter asking for court audit of TimorGAP (Eng/Tetum) (2/15)

• Presentation to Chatham House New Petroleum Producers Discussion Group on engaging with society (5/14)

• What's the Point of Transparency? by Diarmid O'Sullivan (also Tetum) on EITI (9/13)

• LH comments on draft revised EITI standard  (4/13)

• Petroleum Transparency in Burma report and presentations from Rangoon workshops (8/12)

• Lessons of Transparency from EITI report by Focus on the Global South (4/12)

• LH letter to Minister of Finance on Timor-Leste Transparency Model (also Tetum) (5/12)

• Some thoughts from LH for the Regional EITI Conference (also Tetum) (8/11)

• Timor-Leste (first) Annual EITI Report for 2008 (also Tetum, Portuguese and Bahasa Indonesia) (1/10, revised 12/10)

• Briefing paper: Democracy in Timor-Leste: Information is required! (also Tetum) (8/09)

• LHB: Enhancing EITI implementation in Timor-Leste (6/09)

• LHB Consolidating the Asia-Pacific movement to Publish What You Pay (1/08)

• LHB Terms of Reference and Summary of Work Plan for Timor-Leste implementation of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) (1/08)

• EITI Work Plan 2007-2009 (9/07)

• LH and Luta Hamutuk Submission to EITI meeting in Oslo (10/06)

• LH Submission to UK Government EITI meeting in London (3/05)

• LH presentation to World Bank EITI Meeting in Paris. Extractive Industry Transparency in Timor-Leste: Limitations in Practice (2/05)
  A version was published as an LHB Editorial (4/05)

• LHB Editorial: Democracy Requires Information (12/02)

  LH on UNTAET Gag Rule (1/01)

Timor-Leste-Australia Maritime Boundaries

• Chronology and links Australia Prosecutes Bernard Collaery and Witness K (5/24)
  Press release and blog: LH Congratulates Australia for Ending the Prosecution of Bernard Collaery and Urges them to Continue to Respect Timor-Leste’s Sovereignty / Ami Kongratula Austrália ne'ebé Hapara Akuzasaun Kontra Bernard Collaery, no Tenke Kontinua atu Respeita Soberania Timor-Leste (7/22)
  LHB Bernard Collaery no Witness K Hetan Persegisaun Legál iha Austrália (1/22)

• Chronology and index 2016-2020: Compulsory Conciliation leads to a Maritime Boundary Treaty between Australia and TL (6/20)

• LH Analysis of how much money Australia stole (English/Tetum) from Timor-Leste for the Laminaria-Corallina oil field (12/20)

• LH Submission to the Australian Senate on returning to international legal mechanisms (10/19)

• LH letter to RDTL Parliament on the Boundary Treaty (also Tetum) (8/18)

• LHB Saida mak Valór Tratadu Foun Fronteira Maritima ne’e ba TL?
  What is the new maritime boundary treaty worth to TL? (5/18)

• LH submission to Australian Parliament on the Boundary Treaty (also Tetum) (4/18)

• Article on the Timor-Leste-Australia Maritime Boundary Treaty (also PDF, abridged blog or Tetum) (3/18)

• Chronology and index 2012-2016: Protesting the Australia-Timor-Leste CMATS Treaty to compel boundary negotiations (3/18)

• Aprezentasaun ba MHJTL Istória no Luta ba Fronteira Maritima iha Timor-Leste (mos PowerPoint) (10/17)

• LH blog: Copenhagen Agreement: Permanent Boundary or CMATS redux?
  Konkordánsia Copenhagen: Fronteira Permanente ka Neo-CMATS? (9/17)

• LH Submission to the Australian Parliament on cancelling the CMATS Treaty (3/17)

• Radio Igualdade podcast: Fronteira Maritima entre Timor-Leste no Australia (3/16)

• Aprezentasaun ba MKOTT Australia tenke respeita soberania Timor-Leste ho fronteira lina klaran (mos PDF) (2/16)

• A look back at 2013 in Timor-Leste (includes an overview of the controversy with Australia) (1/14)

• Aprezentasaun ba MKOTT Australia tenke respeita soberania Timor-Leste ho fronteira lina klaran (mos PDF) (12/13)

• Aprezentasaun ba TLSA Tansá Timor-Leste-Australia Seidauk iha Fronteira? (mos Paper no PDF) (7/13)

• Australian Parliamentary Inquiry submissions and hearing transcripts (5/13)
  LH submission to Australian Parliamentary Inquiry on Australia's relationship with TL (3/13)

• LH nia aprezentasaun kona-ba Tratadu CMATS ba jornalista sira (Tetum PowerPoint ka  PDF)
  LH presentation on CMATS Treaty for journalists (English PowerPoint or PDF) (2/13)

• Terminasaun Tratadu CMATS no nia implikasaun ba Timor-Leste / Implications for Timor-Leste of Terminating the CMATS Treaty article by LH in Dili newspapers (English/Tetum) (2/13)

• Australia's Carbon Tax and Timor-Leste (4/12)

• Briefing paper: Timor Sea Maritime Boundary: Still not settled! (also Tetum) (8/09)

• Sunrise LNG in Timor-Leste: Dreams, Realities and Challenges (2/08)

• LHB Gareth Evans Must Apologize (9/07)

• Forum Tau Matan cancels an AusAID-funded project because AusAID had abrogated a contract with them for political reasons two years earlier (see 10/05 below) (7/07)

• LHB Timor-Leste's 50 year loss of sovereignty (6/07)

• LH submission to the Australian Parliament on CMATS (3/07)

• LHB Public Meeting on CMATS Treaty (3/07)

• LH letter to RDTL Parliament on CMATS Treaty (2/07)

• Treaty between Australia and Timor-Leste Concerning Certain Maritime Arrangements in the Timor Sea, with LH statement and links to many other documents from various sources (2/07)

• LHB Analysis of the CMATS Treaty, including a chronology, glossary and timeline (4/06)

• La'o Hamutuk letter to RDTL Parliament regarding CMATS Treaty (3/06)

• Australian government releases in contested Timor Sea areas, 2001-2006 (1/06)

• LH press release on AusAID revocation of a grant to a Timorese NGO in response to their calling for a fair maritime boundary (10/05)
  LHB Editorial: Australian Aid Should Not Restrict Free Speech (11/05)

• Surat Popular: Maritime Boundaries (4/05)

• Surat Popular: Timor Gap

• LHB Australia’s Distortions about maritime boundaries (3/04)

• LH Submission to the Australian Parliament on Sunrise Unitization (6/03)

• RDTL Law on Maritime Boundaries (9/02)

• Submissions to the Australian Parliament Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on Timor Sea Treaty: La'o Hamutuk; East Timor Independent Information Centre for the Timor Sea (CIITT) (7/02)

• LHB The Timor Sea Treaty Should Not be Ratified in its Current Form (10/02)

• LHB Oil and Gas Fields in the Timor Sea and Australia's other gas fields (7/02)

• LHB Editorial: Australia: Stop Stealing Timor-Leste’s Oil (5/02)

• LHB Editorial: Phillips Petroleum and Canberra Play an Old Game (8/01)

• LHB Editorial: Health & Oil: The Timor-Leste-Australia Connection (11/00)

Other petroleum issues

• Employment in extractive industries (Empregu iha Atividades Estrativas), inklui submisaun husi LH (Tetum) (4/16)

• Appeals court proceedings, including docket and documents, in unsuccessful appeal of Petrotimor v. ConocoPhillips lawsuit in the USA (11/09)

• Aliambata gas seep electricity generating project (4/09)

• LHB Civil Society Forum on Climate Change (8/08)

• Petrotimor v. ConocoPhillips lawsuit dismissed by U.S. Court (5/08)

• Sunrise LNG in Timor-Leste: Dreams, Realities and Challenges (2/08)

• LHB Restructuring Petroleum Regulation in Timor-Leste. (6/07)

• LHB Pertamina's Dominance and implications for electricity in TL (12/04)

• The Case for Saving Sunrise (9/04)

• LHB Report on Petroleum Conference in Darwin, Australia (8/02)

• Timor-Leste NGOs write Parliament on Timor Sea Oil (6/02)

• LHB PetroTimor: Ancient History? (5/02)

• LHB Editorial: Phillips Petroleum and Canberra Play an Old Game (8/01)

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