MUCH of the attention surrounding Carnarvon Petroleum's operations has been centred on the Dorado oilfield off Western Australia, but the company is also pressing forward with another oil development off Timor-Leste, writes Josh Lewis. Carnarvon is progressing plans to redevelop the Buffalo field off Timor-Leste, which was discovered in 1996 and shut in 2004 after producing about 20.5 million barrels of oil. Carnarvon is currently aiming to drill the Buffalo East-1 well in the first quarter of 2020 to confirm its technical work and return about 18 months later to drill two more production wells and install the infrastructure required to bring the field back on line. Along with the three wells, the development plan envisages a jacket, topside, flowlines, umbilicals and a floating production, storage and offloading vessel.
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