The New Zealand Oil and Gas Specialist Technologies group is made up of over 15 multi-disciplined companies – from Auckland, Taranaki, Wellington, Nelson and Bluff – that provide a range of specialist services to the oil and gas sector.
Group members collectively have world-class capabilities in a range of specialist technical services and provide a one-stop shop approach for all “upstream” (oil and gas exploration and production) and “downstream” (petrochemical, refining, oil and gas wholesaling and retailing) companies.
Port Taranaki and the New Zealand energy industry have been inextricably linked for over 140 years – since the first oil well in the former British Empire was dug by hand near where the New Plymouth port now stands.
New Plymouth heavy engineering specialists Fitzroy Engineering Group, shipped one of the biggest and most complex catalytic reactors yet built in New Zealand to a New South Wales oil refinery earlier this year.
Construction of the onshore production station in south Taranaki for the billion-dollar offshore Kupe gas project is the most visible sign of the huge effort a myriad of companies and hundreds of people are putting in to ensure gas starts flowing from the field by mid-2009.
Taranaki company Digital Insight is used to going ‘where no man has gone before’ and, frankly, wouldn’t want to because of extreme limits regarding size or working conditions.
Helicopters are an essential and exciting part of life for the energy sector, ferrying freight and passengers between shore and offshore drilling rigs and production platforms, or into barely accessible areas of bush or farmland.
Safety training for the energy industry is mostly in hands of M&O Pacific, which has a major training in New Plymouth, the country’s energy capital.
Olex is a name that is almost synonymous with cables in Taranaki – it has been servicing the domestic and international energy sector cable markets from its Bell Block, New Plymouth factory site for over four decades.
Regional economic and tourism development agency Venture Taranaki Trust has been high on energy since its inception – instrumental in the growth and prosperity of the region’s oil and gas, and allied sectors.
A tall order
Hovering for energy
With safety in mind
The cable guys
Trusting Taranaki