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Kōrero: Mining and underground resources

Oil rig

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Oil rig

This oil rig is at the site of the Rimu-1A drillhole, which found oil. Much of Taranaki is gently rolling farmland, intensively used for dairy farming. As the photograph shows, drilling operations normally only affect a limited area around the rig.

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New Zealand Petroleum & Minerals, Ministry for Economic Development

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Simon Nathan, Mining and underground resources – Mining regulation and education, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/9248/oil-rig (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Nathan, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.