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Basins bounty sought

Taranaki Basin, located along the Exploration is being conducted

As oil and natural gas west coast of New Zealand’s North in other basins, sub-commercial production continues

Island, has been the principal discoveries achieved in the

T to ? uctuate at a level focus of oil & gas exploration East Coast Basin of North Island and production. It commenced and in the Canterbury and well below demand, with the large gas and condensate Great South basins offshore South

John Mueller looks discoveries made in 1969 with the Island. onshore Kapuni and offshore Maui More than 400 wells have been at New Zealand’s ? elds, and continuing throughout drilled in the 330,000 sq km growing need to this on- and offshore petroleum Taranaki Basin, but none beyond aggressively explore province. the marine shelf edge. New Other signi? cant hydrocarbon discoveries have been made at a the nation’s vast and ? nds include the offshore Tui and steady rate, and new play types are extensive offshore

Maari oil ? elds and Kupe and still being found.

sedimentary basins.

Pohokura gas ? elds. Elsewhere in New Zealand, The Maui ? eld, formerly the frontier basins have yielded premier deposit, has been in sharp discoveries con? rming viable decline. petroleum systems, with many The Maari and Pohokura ? elds untested structures having closures contain about 49% of remaining oil greater than the Maui ? eld.

and condensate reserves, Pohokura Concerted geophysical data accounting for 45% of natural gas gathering since the mid-2000s, with the balance distributed over coupled with advancing deepwater 17 other ? elds. drilling and production technology, oedigital.com February 2013 | OE 77 oe_Australasia.indd 77 31/01/2013 13:09