Oil flows from McKee field
PA New Plymouth Commercial production from the McKee oil field in north Taranaki has started. Although work has just begun on permanent production facilities at the Tikorangi site, a temporary system using road tankers started at the week-end. This increases New Zealand’s domestic oil flow and will provide valuable information on the field’s behaviour before full-scale production begins, says Petrocorp (Exploration), Ltd.
Two road tankers are making between four and six trips a day each be-
tween the McKee wellhead and storage tanks at Port Taranaki.
They are carrying 1000 barrels a day but the Clifton County Council has given Petrocorp permission to double this amount.
In its application, the company indicated that this could bring in an extra $lO million to $2O million from oil produced before fullscale production begins at the end of the year. Up to 5000 barrels a day will be produced from McKee and neighbouring oilfields, to be piped to Port Taranaki for shipping to Marsden Point for refining.
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Press, 24 April 1984, Page 5
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