A ConocoPhillips-led joint venture reported a successful appraisal well in Barossa natural gas field in Bonaparte basin retention lease NT/RL5 in the eastern Timor Sea 300 km north of Darwin. The results enhance the field’s prospects as the best source to supply back-fill gas to the combine’s Darwin LNG plant that is currently supplied by Bayu-Undan field in the Timor Gap.

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