By Lewis Jackson

SYDNEY, Jan 15 (Reuters) - Australia's Santos can proceed with construction of an undersea pipeline vital to its $4.3 billion Barossa gas project after a court on Monday ruled in favour of the oil and gas company in a dispute with an indigenous man looking to pause the work.

Work on the pipeline, which will connect the Barossa gas field to a processing plant in the northern Australian city of Darwin, was paused by court order in November after a suit by a traditional land owner from the nearby Tiwi Islands. (Reporting by Lewis Jackson in Sydney Editing by Alasdair Pal)