DRILLING

Maari drilling still waiting on weather

THE sometimes wild New Zealand weather is still preventing the start of development drilling of the Maari oil project off Taranaki – two months after Kupe operator Origin Energy released the Ensco 107 jack-up rig to Maari operator OMV.

The rig sat for several weeks at the Maari wellsite, about 80km south of the Taranaki coast, during August but is now stacked and sheltering in Tasman Bay, near the top of the South Island, until calmer...

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