All articles by Marc Moszkowski except otherwise noted
East
Timorese
(and
Other)
Issues
and
Realities
"but a little bit of sober fact is more than you can stand!"
Rudyard Kipling: 'The Broken-Link Handicap', 1888
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)
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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
Current Energy Requirements in Indonesia (April 2015)
Considerations about the Abadi-Masela Gas Project (May 2017)
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)
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)
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)
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)
South
China
Sea
Issues
China's Pacific Overtures (November 2015)
How China rules the forklifts (January 2017)
The Chinese occupation of rocks and reefs in the South China Sea (May 2017)
China's Belt and Road Initiative (October 2018)
About
Maritime
Mishaps
Comments on the collision between a freighter and a U.S. Navy ship offshore Japan (June 2017)
Comments on the collision between a tanker and a U.S. Navy ship offshore Singapore (August 2017)
Suez: hardly a maritime surprise (March 2021)
About
the
Flood
Comments on the Houston flood of August 31, 2017 (September 2017)
Methods
and
U.S.
Patents
PipePredictor (2003)
J-Flex (2004)
Dynamic Positionning Connection (2006)
Dual Gradient Pipeline Evacuation Method (2012)
Method of fully expelling compressed gas from a tank (2017)
Select
Articles
in
International
Publications
with or by various writers
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)