Oil and gas industry in New Zealand

[1] All crude oil extracted in New Zealand was (and is) exported as the Marsden Point refinery was not suited to processing it.

Exploration for oil and gas reserves includes the Great South Basin and offshore areas near Canterbury and Gisborne.

There are 2,600 kilometres of high-pressure natural gas transmission pipelines in the North Island.

[10] The Kapuni gas field in South Taranaki was discovered in 1959 and brought into production in 1970.

[12] In 2021, the last of the deep sea oil and gas exploration permits outside Taranaki was surrendered.