The FPSO Umuroa moored at the Tui oil field, 50kms from the Taranaki coastline. In a scathing Environment Court decision, the Environmental Protection Authority has been ordered to pay $110,000 to an oil and gas company it prevented from disconnecting a floating production station from the Tui Oil Field off the coast of Taranaki. The EPA issued abatement notices to stop BW Offshore removing the Umuroa from the field early last year, saying the company could not rely on a 2017 EPA ruling allowing them to do so. The regulator was concerned unplugging flowlines connecting the vessel to Tui risked spilling oil into the ocean. It argued the basis for the EPA abatement notices was without merit or substance.

Source: Stuff March 15, 2021 00:56 UTC