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Origin sizes up Beetaloo gas bonanza
Origin Energy has revealed data that suggests it could be sitting on a gas resource in the Northern Territory several times the size of the North West Shelf, able to keep the energy-short eastern states market well supplied or feed LNG export plants in Darwin.