- Quarterly analysis of Bayu Undan production and revenue (every quarter)
- Remarks about the disproportionate sizing of a governmental port project in Suai (October 2010)
- Commentary on Xanana Gusmão's Thomson Reuters speech in Singapore (June 2013)
- Issues concerning the maritime jurisdiction of East Timor (2014 to 2021)
- Maritime Boundaries of East Timor: a graphical presentation (2014 to 2021)
- ICAPP VIII: Building an Asian Community (September 2014)
- Sunrise alternatives (March 2015)
- Can there be economic development without basic infrastructure? (March 2015)
- The Uncharted Hazards of the Timor Sea Dispute (September 2015)
- Gambling with the National Treasure (October 2015)
- Response to Xanana Gusmão's letter to 'The Saturday Paper' (February 2016)
- The Lowy Interpreter (February 2016)
- Tibar Port, the youngest of the white elephants (March 2016)
- The Lowy Interpreter (March 2016)
- U.N. Conciliation Commission: a flowchart of possible outcomes (June 2016)
- A flowchart of two possible options for Sunrise and Troubadour (June 2016)
- Gambling habits die hard (August 2016)
- Timor Sea fields 2006-2016
- Comments on the Joint East Timor Australia Statement about CMATS (10 January 2017)
- Comments on the termination of CMATS (12 January 2017)
- Comments on Xanana Gusmao's open letter of 25 January 2017 (31 January 2017)
- Covalima airport at Suai, the new addition to the family of white elephants (June 2017)
- How a Treaty was universally hailed as a victory for East Timor (March 2018)
- Acquision of the Sunrise and Troubadour leases by Timor GAP (November 2018)
- The quite improbable extension of the Dili airport runway (December 2018)
- 33 questions to His Excellency, José Alexandre "Kay Rala Xanana" Gusmão (December 2018)
- The sensible development option for Sunrise (February 2019)
- The reality of the East Timor boundaries after the 2018 Treaty (September 2020)
- Quiz: Darwin and Beaço (December 2022)
- Comments on the helium charade (October 2012)
- The Unintended Consequences of Unreserved and Systematic Activist Support (June 2015)
- The Unofficial and Un-Politically Correct Recent History of East Timor (September 2015)
- A Charlie Wilson's War in need of a Joanne Herring (September 2015)
- Bayu Undan discrepancies (October 2015)
- Bayu Undan revenue and production issues (July 2016)
- Bayu Undan flows and revenues (June 2017)
- Further thoughts about Australian spying on the Timorese (August 2018)
- Efforts to peacefully change the political landscape (October 2019)
- Comments on Hamish McDonald's article "Bernard Collaery’s bombshell" (March 2020)
- Comments on Bernard Collaery's "Oil Under Troubled Water" (March 2020)
- More comments on Bernard Collaery's "Oil Under Troubled Water" (March 2020)
- Reasonable and productive ways to develop Sunrise in 2020 (September 2020)
- Developing Sunrise and Troubadour in 5 phases (May 2021)
- Sunrise facetiousness (December 2022)
Select Articles in the East Timorese Media published by Maubocy
- The Sabotage of a Gas Project (2 October 2012)
- The Timor Sea Treaty (11 October 2012)
- The Taci Mane Project: a Financial Disaster (17 October 2012)
- Private Interest Hegemony over G7 and Taci Mane (31 October 2012)
- The Lack of Proportion and Rationality of the Taci Mane Megaproject (4 December 2012)
- The Obstacles to the Pipeline from Sunrise to Beaço (26 March 2013)
- Delineation of Maritime Boundaries in the Timor Sea (9 July 2016)
Indonesian Energy Issues
Other Energy Considerations
- Has LNG a future as a substitute for marine fuel oil? (June 2014)
- A tentative analysis of crude oil price variations over a 175 years period (December 2014)
- The Montara spill and Rote sagas (March 2015 to August 2016)
- An analysis of the oceanic drifting of the 2009 Montara oil spill (August 2016)
- The electric car fever (October 2017)
- Questions regarding the Australian gas crisis (November 2017)
- Ichthys: trouble in the pipeline? (December 2018)
- Wind turbine efficiency (February 2019)
- The Future of Electric Transportation (December 2021)
- Do Japan’s climate goals really spark uncertainty for global LNG? (January 2022)
- Was Russian natural gas cheap? (April 2023)
- I had a dream, windy and wet (March 2024)
Considerations about Climate and Science
- A sense of climatological proportion (June 2017)
- Alpine glaciation (June 2017)
- North American Ice Retreat (June 2017)
- Axial tilt and precession (June 2017)
- A sense of planetary proportion (December 2017)
- Questions about basic scientific knowledge (February 2019)
- Viral folly? (March 2020)
- Laura, myth and reality (August 2020)
- A matter of space and velocity (2003-2021)
- Plagues: Major historical worldwide epidemics (March 2021)
- About disagreealists (April 2021)
- Full circle (July 2021)
- Falling trees (November 2021)
- Hyperbolic orbits (November 2021)
- Looking Up (January 2022)
- Webb (January 2022)
- Webb hyperbola (July 2022)
- Planetary stunt (September 2022)
- Shooting asteroids (September 2022)
- Some comments on a recent interesting article (October 2022)
- The Flames of Hell (December 2022)
- State of Nature (March 2023)
- Natural Intelligence (April 2023)
- Interstellar, Inc. (April 2023)
- Predicting the Future (April 2023)
- Gallic climate (May 2023)
- The Nuclear Bull’s Eye (November 2023)
- 250 million (November 2023)
- Academic answerability (November 2023)
- Doomsday (November 2023)
- Gallic geology (December 2023)
- Thermometers (December 2023)
- Genesis (December 2023)
- Hot (December 2023)
- Genesis, an attempt to write a reasoned commentary (January 2024)
- Signs (April 2024)
- Beauty and reproductive appeal in the natural world (May 2024)
- Speedless Gonzaly (August 2024)
- Sirius or Not Sirius (August 2024)
- Meteorological acumen (October 2024)
- Incommunicado (October 2024)
- Cyclonic correlations (October 2024)
- The renewable energy of lore (November 2024)
- Comparing floods (November 2024)
Across the Oceans
- Ukraine: a Russian perspective (March 2014)
- What the candidate may have in mind (May 2016)
- Considerations about public schizophrenia (July 2016)
- A sense of lethal proportion (February-May 2018)
- Nonsensical escalation (July 2018)
- A revolutionary matter (July 2018)
- Walls (January 2019)
- Candid and practical questions about modern abortion laws (June 2019)
- The Russians are a Threat to our Democracy! Or are they? (July 2019)
- Set course menu of opinions (February 2021)
- Questions about election integrity (May 2021)
- Ozusukish charade (October 2021)
- The President makes the economy! Or does he? (October 2021)
- The National Spelling Bee and other intellectual incongruities (February 2022)
- Cherchez la Flamme (April 2022)
- Candid questions about the Ukraine (May 2022)
- Visa imbalance (July 2022)
- Marshals of the Empire (August 2022)
- South Russia: some historical perspective (September 2022)
- A mortal enemy? (September 2022)
- Puzzled (September 2022)
- A 21st century Clausewitz (September 2022)
- Nord Stream path profile (October 2022)
- A Follow-up on Cherchez la Flamme (October 2022)
- The Missionary's Duty (December 2022)
- Geopolitical Survey (December 2022)
- Just below God, or God's Chosen Surrogate? (January 2023)
- U.S. natural gas price vagaries (January 2023)
- Russia Afghanistan parallels (January 2023)
- Blocs (January 2023)
- The Elusive Pimpernel (February 2023)
- Opinions (February 2023)
- People (February 2023)
- Scripts (February 2023)
- Conversance (February 2023)
- Pushkin, 1831 (February 2023)
- Liberation (February 2023)
- Deep-sea diving (March 2023)
- Drones (March 2023)
- Trespassing (March 2023)
- Deployment outrage (March 2023)
- The Three Basic Tenets of Party Democracy (April 2023)
- The Pale (April 2023)
- Fear and hatred (April 2023)
- The Citizen's Conundrum (April 2023)
- Values (April 2023)
- The Age of Enlightenment (April 2023)
- How the East Was Won (May 2023)
- Threshy (May 2023)
- Flat (May 2023)
- Serf Souls (May 2023)
- An international comparison of different interpretations of the Freedom of the Press (May 2023)
- Perceptions of the Second Amendment (June 2023)
- Vindication over the miscreant (June 2023)
- Quiz: strategic and geopolitical endowment (June 2023)
- One hundred trillion (June 2023)
- A short Philistine questionnaire (October 2023)
- A second short Philistine questionnaire (October 2023)
- Davids and Goliaths (October 2023)
- Mass killings? (October 2023)
- Foresight? (October 2023)
- Which? (October 2023)
- Blue victims (October 2023)
- Sharing (November 2023)
- Winners and Losers (November 2023)
- A New Jerusalem? (November 2023)
- Terrified (December 2023)
- From the Axis to NATO (December 2023)
- Historians of the future (December 2023)
- Batavian preparations for war (December 2023)
- A civil matter (December 2023)
- Shades (January 2024)
- Democracy in numbers (January 2024)
- Middle Eastern sustenance (January 2024)
- Missaving our Dismocracy (February 2024)
- NATO 2% (February 2024)
- Arctic speculation (February 2024)
- Reason and the Middle East (March 2024)
- Nuances (March 2024)
- From the USSR to Russia (March 2024)
- Si vis bellum (March 2024)
- A Modern Model of Economics (March 2024)
- The Battle of the Little Big River (March 2024)
- The Gutter (March 2024)
- The Fall of an Empire? (April 2024)
- The New Congress of Vienna Diplomacy (April 2024)
- Billionaire inequality (April 2024)
- Künstliche Intelligenz (April 2024)
- Six of One (April 2024)
- Thirty-fifth Meridian East (April 2024)
- Bicephalous (April 2024)
- Geometrical compromises (April 2024)
- The Progress of Political Wisdom (April 2024)
- Slip of the tongue (April 2024)
- On Sikelizocracy (May 2024)
- On Sophocracy (May 2024)
- National fervor (May 2024)
- Tyranny (May 2024)
- The Baltic Sea (May 2024)
- Put Out More Flags (May 2024)
- General MacNator (May 2024)
- Legal and orderly (May 2024)
- Integral consistency (May 2024)
- Modern Jingoism (May 2024)
- Antipodal Homo Europeanus (May 2024)
- The Gospels of Matthew and Luke (May 2024)
- Break it up! (May 2024)
- Recognizable (May 2024)
- Principia orientalia (May 2024)
- Sustainable development (May 2024)
- A Whole Green World (May 2024)
- A boxing metaphor (May 2024)
- A Wizard of Subversion (May 2024)
- A better claim (May 2024)
- Crunts (June 2024)
- To err is human, to forgive divine (June 2024)
- The buhl (June 2024)
- Modesta quaestio (Junius MMXXIV)
- Indomitable! (June 2024)
- News from the Bayous (June 2024)
- Divine Gallic Polymathy (June 2024)
- Therapy (June 2024)
- Oklahoman commandment (June 2024)
- The Flowing and Ebbing of Empires (June 2024)
- Thou Shalt Not Covet (July 2024)
- Checkmate (July 2024)
- Appeasement (July 2024)
- The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (July 2024)
- Gallic arithmetics (July 2024)
- Selection (July 2024)
- The Purity of One's Blood (July 2024)
- Taboo (July 2024)
- A Hero (July 2024)
- Great Philosophers (July 2024)
- The Protector of our Liberties (July 2024)
- A Deep State of Affairs (July 2024)
- Reverence (July 2024)
- Infused (July 2024)
- Leave no Stone Unturned (July 2024)
- Manufactures (July 2024)
- Continental shelves (August 2024)
- Track and Field (August 2024)
- Government Efficiency (August 2024)
- Baltic cataclysm (August 2024)
- Deep inside (August 2024)
- Tall ships (August 2024)
- Migrations (August 2024)
- How Did the Ghost Vanish? (August 2024)
- A rules based order with movable posts (September 2024)
- Invincible Armadas (September 2024)
- A growing threat of expansionism (September 2024)
- 2009 (September 2024)
- A fixed course menu of thoughts (September 2024)
- Invasive perspectives (September 2024)
- Architectural and geopolitical (September 2024)
- Reason and the Levant (September 2024)
- Forty Years after 1984 (September 2024)
- Toponymic and geometric oddities (September 2024)
- Propaganda Achievements Awards (September 2024)
- Aurora colorada (October 2024)
- Correlations (October 2024)
- Political stability (October 2024)
- The Center for the Understanding of the Natoleonic Terror Syndrome (October 2024)
- How to select a candidate (October 2024)
- The Age of Geostrategic and Geotactical Sagacity (October 2024)
- Physiognomies (October 2024)
- Hallowe'en, 2024 (November 2024)
- Victoria pro Democratia (November 2024)
- Quadrants (November 2024)
- Pollarithmetic (November 2024)
- Big Little Man (November 2024)
- Engineering Congress (November 2024)
- The Efficiency Experts (November 2024)
- On being an autocrat (November 2024)
- Generational order (November 2024)
- Retroprogressing to 1964 (November 2024)
- Age of consent (November 2024)
- Supplement to Efficiency Expertise (November 2024)
- Diversity (November 2024)
- The Battering Ram (November 2024)
- Make Manufacturing Great Again (December 2024)
- Overwhelming (December 2024)
- Executively Constitutional (December 2024)
- Visionaries of the Western Press (December 2024)
- No Cause for Alarm (December 2024)
- L'État, c'est moi ! (December 2024)
- Duality of sense (December 2024)
- On the Efficacy of Vaccination (December 2024)
- New additions to the Western Bloc (December 2024)
- Тне Iиехояавlе Яеd Маясн Щеsтщаяd! (December 2024)
- Gas stations (December 2024)
- The Art of Translation (December 2024)
- Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will (Christmas, 2024)
- The Art of Making Money (New Year's Eve, 2024)
- Climate clairvoyance (January 2025)
- MADA, or Trick-or-treat? (January 2025)
- Defend their Colours! (January 2025)
- An Epic Win! (January 2025)
- Dismiss! (January 2025)
- Rightful toponymy (January 2025)
- Presocratic computation (January 2025)
- A Common Sense of Disproportion (January 2025)
- Severity of Consequences (January 2025)
- Common, like it is (January 2025)
- The Common Sense Mandate (January 2025)
- A Well Arcticulated Geopolitical Theory (February 2025)
- Masters of Art (February 2025)
- Good Cause Eviction (February 2025)
- The contrary of a contrary (February 2025)
- A problem of fluid mechanics (February 2025)
- To provoke, or not to provoke (March 2025)
- The Fate of Man (March 2025)
- To Infinity, and Beyond! (March 2025)
- Natoleon's Revenge (March 2025)
- Creationism (March 2025)
- Absalom, Absalom! (March 2025)
- The Leveler in Chief (March 2025)
- Transdisciplinary talent (March 2025)
- Frugality, Generosity, and Humility (March 2025)
South China Sea Issues
About Maritime Mishaps
About the Flood
Select Articles in International Publicationswith or by various writers as indicated
- Boundary row escalates as finances deteriorate (Nikkei Asian Review, 20 November 2015)
- Maritime arrangements and Timor-Leste’s oil ploy (The Saturday Paper, 28 November 2015)
- East Timor Eyeing New Greater Sunrise Treaty (Natural Gas Daily, 14 July 2016)
- UN hearing puts spotlight on Timor Sea (Natural Gas Daily, 1 September 2016)
- Timor-Leste backing oil development before Hague ruling (The Saturday Paper, 3 September 2016)
- East Timor’s development dilemma (Nikkei Asian Review, 25 September 2016)
- Darwin LNG prioritises backfill (Natural Gas Daily, 14 November 2016)
- Pressure rising on East Timor to make a deal (Natural Gas Daily, 21 November 2016)
- East Timor Is Going For Broke As Oil Runs Out (Forbes, 7 December 2016)
- East Timor's Gas Dream Is Doomed (Forbes, 12 December 2016)
- Greater Sunrise stalled as revenue treaty torn up (Natural Gas Daily, 11 January 2017)
- East Timor’s last chance for Greater Sunrise (Natural Gas Daily, 17 July 2017)
- Announcement of an agreement in the Timor Sea (Natural Gas Daily, 4 September 2017)
- East Timor open to Greater Sunrise options (Natural Gas Daily, 20 November 2017)
- Overblown Expectations For East Timor's Greater Sunrise Oil And Gas (Forbes, 2 March 2018)
- People Of East Timor Misled Over Sunrise Oil And Gas (Forbes, 7 March 2018)
- Back to the drawing board for Greater Sunrise (Natural Gas Daily, 30 July 2018)
- Woodside eyes solution to Greater Sunrise deadlock (Natural Gas Daily, 29 October 2018)
- China may join Greater Sunrise fray after Shell sells out (Natural Gas Daily, 21 November 2018)
- Ruinous project in East Timor could open door to China (Sydney Morning Herald, 18 December 2018)
- Australia aims to limit China's role in Timor LNG (Natural Gas Daily, 7 February 2019)
- Chinese finance bolsters East Timor LNG plan (Interfax Global Energy, 16 May 2019)
- Inpex and Jakarta agree $20 bln Masela plan (Interfax Global Energy, 7 June 2019)
- Big decisions for East Timor as treaty is ratified (Interfax Global Energy, 5 September 2019)
- Sunset at East Timor’s Greater Sunrise LNG after Woodside write-down (Energy Voice, 22 July 2020)
- Potential second chance for East Timor’s Greater Sunrise field (Energy Voice, 17 August 2020)
- Timor-Leste aims to reinvigorate its oil and gas sector (Upstream, 20 August 2020)
- East Timor rethinks flawed Greater Sunrise LNG plan (Energy Voice, 9 September 2020)
- COVID-19 wipes out East Timor's dreams of oil and gas riches (Nikkei Asia, 26 September 2020)
- Timor-Leste’s Costly Oil and Gas Ambitions Grind to a Halt (The Diplomat, 2 October 2020)
- Timor-Leste’s gas dreams fade (The Saturday Paper, 3 October 2020)
- Sun is setting on Timor-Leste’s pipe dream (Asia Times, 5 October 2020)
- Woodside helps Australian offshore exploration spend hit 44-year low (Energy Voice, 9 December 2020)
- Australia’s Santos steals a march with Barossa LNG deal (Energy Voice, 15 December 2020)
- Santos breathes new life into East Timor’s Bayu-Undan (Energy Voice, 15 January 2021)
- Santos eyes growth projects, readies Barossa LNG (Energy Voice, 18 February 2021)
- Skepticism over Carnarvon’s Buffalo field off East Timor (Energy Voice, 9 March 2021)
- Santos hands out FPSO deal for $3.6bn Barossa LNG scheme (Energy Voice, 24 March 2021)
- Santos approves $3.6bn Barossa LNG project (Energy Voice, 30 March 2021)
- Santos’ Barossa LNG emissions create major risks for shareholders (Energy Voice, 31 March 2021)
- Twist of irony as East Timor eyes LNG imports (Energy Voice, 1 April 2021)
- East Timor puts a number on potential LNG import volumes (Energy Voice, 8 April 2021)
- Advance bullish on Buffalo bonanza off East Timor (Energy Voice, 12 April 2021)
- East Timor set for big offshore well as Buffalo deal completed (Energy Voice, 20 April 2021)
- Eni and Santos eye carbon capture opportunities at East Timor’s Bayu Undan (Energy Voice, 3 May 2021)
- Indonesia pushes to reopen fractious maritime border talks (AFR, 19 May 2021)
- Santos and East Timor sign pact for potential $1.6bn CCS scheme at Bayu Undan (Energy Voice, 14 September 2021)
- CCS will not save Santos’ Barossa LNG project (Energy Voice, 20 October 2021)
- East Timor eyes oil bonanza as historic exploration well spudded (Energy Voice, 28 October 2021)
- Trio of exploration wells planned for historic East Timor campaign (Energy Voice, 1 November 2021)
- Inpex and Shell’s Abadi faces more headwinds as US LNG muscles in (Energy Voice, 17 November 2021)
- Is Santos and Eni’s CCS plan in the Timor Sea ‘carbon colonialism’? (Energy Voice, 25 November 2021)
- Carnarvon gives up as widely anticipated Buffalo probe disappoints offshore East Timor (Energy Voice, 20 January 2022)
- East Timor NGO hits out at Santos’ carbon storage plans for Barossa LNG (Energy Voice, 15 February 2022)
- Critics say Santos’ Barossa LNG should be halted until CCS scheme proven (Energy Voice, 17 February 2022)
- Santos enters FEED for world’s largest CCS project at Bayu Undan offshore East Timor (Energy Voice, 9 March 2022)
- Hope stoked onshore East Timor as driller hits oil (Energy Voice, 16 March 2022)
- Chuditch gas stirs excitement offshore East Timor (Energy Voice, 16 March 2022)
- Woodside eyes Browse and East Timor’s Sunrise gas as war in Europe tightens energy markets (Energy Voice, 27 April 2022)
- East Timor’s upstream licensing round disappoints (Energy Voice, 27 April 2022)
- Bayu Undan decommissioning this year as Santos accelerates giant CCS plan offshore East Timor (Energy Voice, 11 May 2022)
- Santos eyes cheaper carbon storage offshore East Timor at new $1.7bn APAC hub
(Energy Voice, 27 May 2022)
- East Timor set for three more onshore exploration wells as driller claims success
(Energy Voice, 13 June 2022)
- Woodside’s Sunrise still a long shot in East Timor, plate tectonics in focus
(Energy Voice, 1 July 2022)
- Smoke and mirrors in Indonesia as giant gas projects struggle
(Energy Voice, 26 September 2022)
- Steve Bracks tapped as envoy on East Timor-Woodside gas project
(Financial Review, 17 October 2022)
- Woodside open to onshore LNG export project in East Timor
(Energy Voice, 1 December 2022)
- Woodside boss makes blunder with East Timor LNG comments
(Energy Voice, 2 December 2022)
- East Timor’s NOC calls Woodside ‘corporate bully’ in latest Sunrise LNG spat
(Energy Voice, 4 December 2022)
- East Timor President finds no progress with Australia on gas project
(Energy Voice, 12 December 2022)
- Woodside revisits Timor LNG concept for Sunrise after bullying accusations
(Energy Voice, 6 February 2023)
- Australian LNG project could shut down within weeks (Upstream, 18 May 2023)
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