With the continual change in gas market conditions, the need for up-to date, accurate and readily accessible production and consumption data is essential for industry participants.
April update: Additional graphs showing Gas use by sector and Energy supply by fuel type have been added to this page.
Gas production
Gas production in New Zealand is based entirely in the Taranaki region. Where New Zealand once produced around 180PJ's of gas, over the past few years the level of production has been in decline.
The graph below shows the gas output from most major gas fields in New Zealand.
The data used in this graph can be downloaded in this Excel spreadsheet.
Note: Not all data is publicly available as some gas is transported through private pipelines. The Kapuni field is absent from the above graph as we are not confident that the publicly available information sufficiently captures the activity at this field.
Information on some of the production downturns shown in this graph can be found on the Outage Disclosure page.
Gas consumption
New Zealand produces about 80 PJ of gas a year. About a third of that gas is used to generate or co-generate electricity. Large industrial and commercial gas customers account for most of the remaining two thirds.
Data is sourced from MBIE. MBIE's publicly available Energy Balances webpage can be found here.
NB: The Transport demand sector category has been excluded due to continued low numbers of natural gas users.
Data is sourced from MBIE. MBIE's publicly available Energy Balances webpage can be found here.
MBIE groups the fuel types as follows:
- Coal: Bituminous, Sub-bitum, Bituminous & Sub-bitum, and Lignite.
- Oil: Crudes/Feedstocks/Natural Gas Liquids, Liquified Petroleum Gas, Petrol, Diesel, Fuel Oil, Aviation Fuel/Kerosene, and Others.
- Renewables: Hydro, Geothermal, Solar, Wind, Liquid Biofuels, Biogas, and Solid Biofuels.
- Natural Gas and Waste Heat are totals.(MBIE do not give an explicit definition for Waste Heat, Gas Industry Company infer that it is heat created from electricity generation that is not converted into useful output.)