Who owns the Timor Sea?

Australia
The Maritime Boundary Treaty is an historic agreement for Australia and Timor-Leste: it settled a long-running dispute, delimited our maritime boundaries, and laid the foundation for a new chapter in the relationship between the two countries.

What did Australia do in East Timor?

Australia led the INTERFET operation in 1999, and provided substantial forces to the subsequent United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and its successor operations. Australia also landed combat troops in the country in 2006 to quell ethnic fighting that involved East Timorese police and soldiers.

When was oil discovered in East Timor?

Discovered in 1994, it began making money for Indonesia and Australia in July 1998, and is now mostly depleted. The largest field in the joint area is the Bayu-Undan oil and gas field – 400 million barrels of condensate (liquids) and 3.4 trillion cubic feet of gas.

Where is Gulf of Carpentaria in world map?

northern Australia
The Gulf of Carpentaria (14°S 139°ECoordinates: 14°S 139°E) is a large, shallow sea enclosed on three sides by northern Australia and bounded on the north by the eastern Arafura Sea (the body of water that lies between Australia and New Guinea).

Who is the Prime Minister of Timor-Leste?

Taur Matan RuakSince 2018
Timor-Leste/Prime minister
HE Jose Maria ‘Taur Matan Ruak’ Vasconcelos was elected Prime Minister of Timor-Leste. The membership of the governing coalition changed in 2020.

How deep is the Timor Sea?

A maximum depth of more than 10,800 feet (3,300 metres) is reached in the Timor Trough in the north, but more than half of the sea has a depth of less than 650 feet (200 metres). Throughout the year, the sea experiences a southwesterly surface current, the Timor Current, averaging 0.5–1 mile (0.8–1.6 km) per hour.

Who owns Gulf of Carpentaria?

Stanbroke Pastoral Company
The central Queensland-based Hughes family has bought 438,000-hectare (more than1-million-acre) Miranda Downs Station. Stanbroke Pastoral Company owned the Gulf of Carpentaria property for 24 years before the sale.

Which water body connects Tasmania to Victoria?

Bass Strait, channel separating Victoria, Australia, from the island of Tasmania on the south. Its maximum width is 150 miles (240 km), and its depth is 180–240 feet (50–70 m).

Is there oil in the Timor Sea?

The Timor Sea contains several oil and gas deposits including Laminaria, Bayu-Undan and Greater Sunrise and the resolution of the boundary dispute between Australia and East Timor will determine who has title to those deposits.

Where is the gas pipeline in Timor Leste?

A gas pipeline crosses the Timor Sea from the Joint Petroleum Development Area to Wickham Point near Darwin. The Timor Sea was the location for Australia’s largest oil spill when the Montara oil field leaked oil, natural gas and condensate from 21 August to 3 November 2009.

Is oil Timor-Leste’s ticket to prosperity?

Oil and gas is Timor-Leste’s ticket to prosperity. Is this impoverished nation blowing its one chance? The international airport usually only has one flight a day. ( ABC News: Michael Barnett) At Xanana Gusmao International Airport on Timor-Leste’s picturesque south coast, a morning flight comes in to land.

What is the Timor Sea Treaty and how does it work?

After declaration of East Timor’s nationhood in 1999, the terms of the Timor Gap Treaty were abandoned and negotiations commenced between Australia and East Timor, culminating in the Timor Sea Treaty . From 1965 to 2018, Australia’s territorial claim extended to the bathymetric axis (the line of greatest sea-bed depth) at the Timor Trough.