Last week, gas explorer Tamboran secured access to a pipeline to get its resources to the east coast market. 

However, the company has been stuck in a legal battle with the cattle farmer Rallen for several months. This fight boiled over in recent days after a court hearing whereby Rallen attempted to secure an injunction to stop Tamboran from conducting any work.

 Last week, Energy News reported that Rallen and Tamboran had negotiated an agreement whereby Tamboran would not conduct some preliminary works close to the pastoralist's breeding farm.  

"Station owners feared that the large number of vehicles, heavy machinery used and construction to repurpose a seismic line into an 18 metre wide access track, bisecting one of Rallen's larger breeding paddocks, would see Brahman cattle stressed and in danger of imminent harm," Rallen said last week.  

"Rallen's media statement, released 30 June 2022, continues to mislead the Australian public as to Tamboran's business," Tamboran chief executive Joel Riddle said. 

"This shows the lengths the foreign-owned pastoral leaseholder is undertaking to deny jobs and royalties to Territorians and affordable gas to Australian households and businesses at a time when cost of living pressures are impacting the economy."

Last month, Tamboran won a case against Rallen in the Northern Territory Civil and Administrative Tribunal.

The Tribunal directed Rallen to allow Tamboran to conduct exploration work across the Tanumbirini station.

Rallen has appealed this decision to the Supreme Court in what has become a costly battle for the cattle rancher. The hearings concluded last week.

Tamboran has already begun its 85-kilometre 2D seismic program across exploration permit EP 136.