Exhibit 23.3
CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ENGINEERS
The undersigned firm of Independent Petroleum Engineers, of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, knows that it is named as having prepared a constant dollar evaluation dated September 20, 2005 of the Kotaneelee interests of Magellan Petroleum Corporation, and hereby gives its consent to the use of its name and to the use of the said estimates.
         
 
  Paddock Lindstrom & Associates Ltd.    
 
       
 
  /s/ L. K. Lindstrom    
 
       
September 26, 2005
  L. K. Lindstrom, P. Eng.    
 
  President