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  • Puke Ariki – Taranaki stories – Kāpuni

    This page from Puke Ariki, the Taranaki Museum, gives the history of the Kāpuni gas field.

  • Welcome to petroleum – New Zealand Crown Minerals

    The site of the Ministry of Economic Development’s Crown Minerals agency provides a summary of petroleum resources in New Zealand.

  • STOS.co.nz

    This site gives information about the activities of a group of companies – Shell Todd Oil Services – that have been associated with Taranaki oil and gas exploration and extraction since the 1950s.

  • Synthetic fuel from Maui gas

    An account of the history of the ‘Think Big’ movement and the decision to manufacture synthetic fuel from Maui gas.

More suggestions and sources

    • Judd, Warren. ‘New Zealand’s search for oil.’ New Zealand Geographic 23 (1994): 20–43.

    • Lambert, Ron. In crude state: a history of the Moturoa oilfield, New Plymouth. New Plymouth: Methanex New Zealand in association with the Taranaki Museum, 1995.

    • Nightingale, Tony. Mobil: 100 years in New Zealand. Wellington: Mobil Oil New Zealand, 1996.



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