Woodside has declined the Wilderness Society's call for the company to utilize floating LNG technology to process gas from the Browse Basin.

Woodside and its joint business associates intend to construct an LNG processing plant at James Price Point, north of Broome, to develop the gas.

The company aims to use floating LNG technology to process its Greater Sunrise project in the Timor Sea, and the Wilderness Society says that if it is fine enough for that project, it should be good enough for Browse.

But Woodside's Chief Executive, Don Voelte says that the Kimberley's cyclonic climatic conditions would cause safety dangers for floating LNG and he does not believe that it would be feasible economically.

He said, "Effectively we would have to build three or four of these FLNGs to produce the Browse and every one of those is like a greenfield".

Earlier today, the Wilderness Society prepared a ballooned whale outside Woodside's yearly general assembly in Perth to raise objection against the company's plans.

Next week, Mr. Voelte and Woodside Executives will meet up with East Timorese Government Officers in Dili.

Government Executives have promised to obstruct the Sunrise plans, claiming that the gas field requires to be developed employing a land-based processing plant. They dispute that it is the only way, that East Timor will get a suitable level of monetary gain from the field's development.