Financial Times | New Zealand to ban future offshore oil and gas exploration Financial Times Over the past decade Shell, Chevron, Statoil and other resources companies have sought to search for oil and gas in waters off the coast of New Zealand, which has the world's fourth largest maritime exclusive economic zone. The opposition National ... New Zealand bans all new offshore oil exploration as part of 'carbon-neutral future' New Zealand is done with any new offshore oil and gas exploration Oil exploration: Govt faces reality of coalition marriage |