Kupe Gas Field

Operator: Origin
Country: New Zealand
Location: 30km off Ohawe Beach on the southern Taranaki coast
Production start:
Partners: Origin Energy, Genesis Energy, New Zealand Oil & Gas (NZOG) and Mitsui E&P Australia
Type: Gas & Condensate
Estimated Reserves:
- Initial 2P reserves have been revised to 83.8 million BOE, or 489 petajoules
- 323 PJ of sales gas,
- 1,368 kilotonnes of LPG
- 18.3 million barrels of light oil
Production Volume:

The Kupe Field, located in PML38146 in the offshore Taranaki Basin, New Zealand, is a gas-condensate filled reservoir in the Farewell Formation.
Kupe is made up of an offshore platform with three production wells, a 30km raw gas pipeline running from the platform to the shore, an onshore production station near Hawera, and light crude storage and export facilities near Port Taranaki in New Plymouth.

WorleyParsons: FEED
Technip: design, engineering, procurement, installation, construction, pre-commissioning and commissioning of:
- An unmanned wellhead platform with capacity for up to 6 wells plus future satellites
- A 12” multiphase pipeline to shore and umbilical from the platform to shore
- A horizontal directionally drilled shore crossing (HDD)
- Onshore processing facilities to meet the planned production rate of 70 Tj/d
- An export pipeline for sales gas
- Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and condensate loading bays
Process Group: 78.5 MMSCFD Molecular Sieve Dehydration Package
Thai Nippon Steel & Sumikin: Wellhead Platform Topside & Jacket construction

1986 - The Kupe field was discovered by New Zealand Oil & Gas
2004 - Worley Awarded KUPE FEED
2006 - Final Investment Decision made
2010 - The Prime Minister of New Zealand, John Key, officially opened the Kupe Gas Project
2012 - Initial 2P reserves revised to 83.8 million BOE

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