A joint venture of Santos and Carnarvon Petroleum is moving swiftly in preparation for its appraisal of last year’s large Dorado oil and gas discovery in permit WA-437-P in the Bedout subbasin offshore Western Australia. Carnarvon said in its quarterly report that the Noble Tom Prosser jack up drilling rig has been contracted to drill the Dorado-2 and Dorado-3 appraisal wells, the first of which is to be spudded in April.

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