The deal could strengthen an alternative Browse commercialization route via Inpex’s existing Ichthys LNG facility in Darwin.

The Ichthys operator is closing in on negotiations with the labor unions that are threatening protected industrial action.

MELBOURNE/TOKYO, May 15 : Japan's Inpex said on Friday it would buy PetroChina's 10 per cent stake in the Browse gas fields offshore from Western Australia, the country's largest…

The deal could strengthen an alternative Browse commercialization route via Inpex’s existing Ichthys LNG facility in Darwin.

Japan’s move to buy into the giant Browse project could throw a spanner in the works of Woodside’s plan to pipe the gas back to its North-West Shelf LNG plant.