Woodside is at a stalemate with a Traditional Owners organisation that is seeking hundreds of millions of dollars more in compensation from the Australian energy giant.

It's understood negotiations between the nation's largest gas producer and the Ngarluma Yinjibrandi Foundation Limited (NYFL) over an agreement that compensates the Indigenous organisation for use of its land in Western Australia's resource-rich Pilbara region have stalled.

Sources close to the negotiations have told SBS News that Woodside offered the NYFL $87 million over 12 years in May, $303 million short of the $390 million package the organisation sought last November. Neither party commented on the figures when approached by SBS News.

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