Stuff.co.nz | Another 40000 square kilometers of oil territory open for tender in Taranaki Stuff.co.nz The government has made another 40,000 square kilometres of Taranaki available for oil exploration. The move, announced Monday by Minister for Energy and Resources Simon Bridges at the New Zealand Petroleum Conference in Auckland, will take the ... Government to continue with oil exploration NZ government opens up 525000sq km of new area for oil and gas exploration New areas open to oil, gas exploration in NZ |