NEW ZEALAND

Pepanz takes hammer to opposition bill

THE Petroleum Exploration and Production Association of New Zealand has slammed an opposition politician's bill to make failsafe preventative devices mandatory on all offshore oil and gas wells as inaccurate and unnecessary.

Pepanz takes hammer to opposition bill

"This bill only confirms what we already know ... there is a complete lack of understanding on the part of the politicians, and the general public, of how oil wells are drilled; all wells, not just offshore,"...

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