Australia's Woodside Energy announced on Tuesday that it would sell its stake in the Greater Sunrise natural gas project in Timor-Leste to a local state-owned enterprise for $200 million. An analyst stated that this move is a significant blow to Timor-Leste's ambitions to develop the long-stalled project. The sale of the equity stake to a Timorese state-owned company could open the door for Chinese companies to bid.