The giant jack up rig is on the move after a three-month maintenance programme at Pohokura well platformA large jack up rig working off the North Taranaki coast is on the move. The rig ended a three-monthwell works and maintenance programme at the Pohokura offshore platform in early May and preparations were started to decouple from the platform. READ MORE: Rig arrives off Taranaki coast for Pohokura gas field maintenanceThe decoupling of the rig had meant an 18 day intermittent outage of the offshore wells but the onshore wells were not affected. The company's programme had progressed steadily since the rig arrived in Taranaki in February as work was completed on two wells and platform maintenance. The Pohokura gas field is 16 kilometres long and five kilometres wide and the largest natural gas resource in the country, producing about 40 per cent of the gas required for energy generation.

Source: Stuff May 21, 2019 00:33 UTC