Mobil Oil spokesman Rob Fitzgerald said the refining company had told oil companies that it would take "between 10 and 14 days" to restore the fuel supply. Petrol and diesel can be trucked into Auckland by tanker, but the airport depends entirely on the pipeline and is now running out of stored supplies of aviation fuel. He said the issue was particularly focused on Auckland Airport as it was exclusively supplied with jet fuel by the pipeline. McNaught said this was the first time that the refinery to Auckland pipeline had experienced a fault. A helicopter was put up to survey the pipeline and the leak was identified on farmland at Ruakaka, about 8km from the Marsden Point refinery.

Source: Otago Daily Times September 17, 2017 00:59 UTC