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The Gas (Processing Facilities Information Disclosure) Rules 2008, required gas processing facility owners to make disclosures to Gas Industry Co and expired in June 2014.  

The Current Arrangements section has information about the Gas Quality Requirements and Procedures document. The Developing section has our paper Gas Quality June 2017 Update and information about the work Firstgas ongoing work aimed at improving gas quality arrangements.

The objectives of the TArMAC are to develop a set of minimum standards that will allow for the consistent collection and treatment of advanced metering data; and to identify any registry changes or rules amendments needed to accommodate the uptake of advanced metering.

Gas Industry Co has a role under the Gas Transmission Access Code (GTAC) to consider whether a proposed change better achieves the objectives of the Gas Act and GPS.

Gas Industry Co is pleased to release its Analysis of Submissions on its March 2019 consultation paper: Options for Information Disclosure in the Wholesale Gas Sector (Options Paper). Twenty submissions were received on the Options Paper from a wide range of parties spanning the New Zealand energy sector.

In August 2014, we updated the then Minister of Energy and Resources on the following interconnection matters:

Report on interconnections to Maui and Vector transmission pipelines: relating to the physical interconnections of the McKee/Mangahewa field facilities to the Maui pipeline and the Sidewinder and Cardiff/Cheal field facilities to the Vector pipeline.…

On 20 April 2016 Vector Gas Limited – owner of the Vector transmission system – was acquired by First State Funds, two infrastructure funds managed by First State Investments, known in Australia as Colonial First State Global Asset Management. Vector Gas Limited was renamed First Gas Limited (First Gas).

From time to time the Minister of Energy and Resources (the Minister) requests advice from Gas Industry Co on important issues in the gas industry.

What the Scheme does
The Scheme, introduced in 2010, is designed to achieve improved outcomes for small gas consumers using less than 10 terajoules of gas per year.