Work to bring an additional 93 million litres of diesel storage capacity back into service at Marsden Point has been completed, paving the way for the arrival of New Zealand’s newly established diesel reserve.
Channel Infrastructure NZ has finished recommissioning the storage tanks in Northland, enabling them to receive two shipments of diesel secured as part of a national fuel security initiative.
Finance Minister Nicola Willis said a substantial effort had gone into preparing the tanks within a short timeframe.
“A significant amount of work by a large number of people has gone into getting these tanks ready in a short timeframe so they can store the diesel when it arrives in New Zealand,” Willis said.
The first shipment of diesel is expected to arrive at Marsden Point within the next two weeks, while a second shipment is scheduled to reach New Zealand in July. Combined, the two deliveries will provide the equivalent of around nine days of the country’s average diesel consumption.
“Knowing these tanks are ready to take this shipment, and the next, is great news,” Willis said.
Associate Energy Minister Shane Jones said the reserve had been established to strengthen New Zealand’s resilience against potential disruptions to fuel supplies.
“While we hope we never have to use this reserve, the Government has acted prudently and decisively to ensure that should there be an unforeseen issue with our fuel supply, particularly diesel, New Zealand has enough to keep the economy running in the short-term,” Jones said.
The refurbishment project was funded through the Regional Infrastructure Fund, which contributed up to $21.6 million towards restoring the storage capacity.
Jones said ongoing instability in the Middle East continued to create uncertainty around global fuel markets.
“As long as the Middle East conflict continues, and for some time after, fuel supply and prices will be impacted. The Government is working to ensure the situation remains as stable as possible here,” he said.
OK…great news…BUT
Where is the Diesel supposed to come from? A delayed third party? or-
Is Marsden Point getting ready to re-open and refine Diesel Fuel from locally-sourced New Zealand oil as it should be?!
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Petition of Capt. Wm. Stafford: Re-open the Marsden Point petroleum refinery Open For Signatures 28 Nov 2026 12
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Will this ‘additional storage capacity’ of only ‘nine days’ lower the cost at the pump?
I doubt it…
After all, those Parliamentarians who have shares in the oil companies are laughing at us all the way to the Bank to deposit their dividend checks…but only after being scanned by A.I. for Social Credit purposes…!
New Zealand is still vulnerable. Unless we have a complete system from extracting our own oil and turning that oil into the many products we need.
Petrol
Jet fuel
Gas for soda drinks
Plastic
Tar for roads
Methylated spirits
Turpentine
Acetone
I was expecting this election campaign would get a little more effort towards building a more resilient nation.
Employment, Independence, security of supply and export opportunity.
My message to wana be in the next government is to pull finger and start talking proper policies that will pull NZ out of this borderline depression.
Essentially set New Zealand up to compete and succeed.
What we have now is a thing I call wealth redistribution. Expensive shitwit ideas that has forced men to take messures.
Start focusing on the reasons why men are nolonger willing to commit to a system which is legislated to destroy their future. Separation law shoukd identify who bought what, who owned what before the relationship and they get to keep it.
Otherwise, watch the birth rate reduced from below replacement to near nothing and immigration to replace our once decent culture.
Sry, this will be again long to uproot govt DECEPTION:
Break out the champagne and cue the ceremonial ribbon-cutting. The Beehive is officially celebrating a triumph of modern engineering: they have successfully spent $21.6 million of your money to clean two empty, rusted holes in the ground at Marsden Point.The question you gotta ask is WHY?
Bullsh*ticians are tripping over themselves in the press, hailing these recommissioned tanks as a “decisive, prudent” masterstroke that grants New Zealand a majestic “nine days of diesel demand coverage.”
Let’s take a blowtorch to this staggering, insulting pile of bureaucratic BS.
The sheer audacity of this press release relies on the public being too mathematically illiterate to analyse data.
The lie: The headline boasts that 93 million litres of capacity is “available for service.”
The truth: As of today, the actual volume of commercial diesel inside those shiny new tanks is exactly ZERO.
The lie: They claim this project ensures New Zealand “has enough to keep the economy running.”
The truth: Marsden Point was never for YOU. Look closely at the language. They openly admit these tanks are finished just in time to store the “Government’s diesel reserve.” Marsden Point fuel is legally and physically decoupled from the commercial market!!! While the public grid enters a terrifying, single-digit countdown toward total dryness between ~June 13 (South)and ~June 24 (N.I), the MBIE lies of arriving ships hides the fact that out of the few carrying diesel, 93 mill lts is secretly commissioned by govt to fill their life-security-boats.
This isn’t a rescue mission for the New Zealand people/economy; it’s a private fuel bunker for the state apparatus, the police, and the military so the politicians can maintain control when the actual, commercial hand-to-mouth supply chain hits the wall, ffs!
To break it up:
The South Island crisis: This pristine Northland infrastructure does absolutely nothing for Lyttelton/South Island, which is staring down a brutal dead-stock floor between June 12–14. While the South Island enters a terrifying, multi-day structural void waiting for the Esteem Endeavor on June 20 with another 5 to 6.5 days supply, the Beehive is pointing north, telling them to feel safer because some empty steel in Whangarei just passed an inspection.
The North Island crisis: The first government shipment bound for MP tanks won’t land until mid-June, and the second isn’t due until July. Remeber the lie: This is NOT FOR YOU! Meanwhile, the commercial North Island grid is burning through its remaining on-land cushion so fast that it hits absolute zero between June 22–24.
While truck drivers, farmers, and supermarkets watch the commercial supply chain dry up under mandatory rationing in mid-to-late June, the incoming fuel they are boasting about is bypassing the public terminals completely. It’s a private fuel bunker for the politicians’ security so that politicians can maintain CONTROL when the actual economy hits the wall. DO YOU GET THAT???
The absolute peak of this political gaslighting is Willis & Shane Jones somberly blaming the Middle East conflict and the Strait of Hormuz for our sudden vulnerability.
The lie: The government is acting like an innocent bystander protecting its people from a volatile global storm.
The truth: New Zealand didn’t used to be at the mercy of every rogue wave or global skirmsih. We had a fully functioning, independent domestic refinery at Marsden Point. The state had become a tool of corporate and financial profit. willingly shutting it down, stripping the country of its energy security and leaving us completely naked, dependent on a volatile, 3-week oceanic lifeline, Subsequent governments during the ast decadesdid this for the profit of the lobbyist corrupting conporates. On top of it, the #@%^ Greens/Labour stopped an exploration of NZ’s oil and gas fields. Winston as Kingmaker since decades enabled that sell-out! And now they sh*tting thejr pants, hiding behind lies.
This announcement by is an absolute affront to anyone who understands logistics. The government isn’t celebrating national resilience; they are celebrating the fact that they built their own survival shelter before the storm hits the public.
They are telling you the ship has plenty of lifeboats, while quietly locking the door to the state cabin and pocketing the only keys.
MBIE/treasury/OIO are the real criminals here.
There ARE NO life boats coming.
Dare you: PROVE ME WRONG!
Paving the way for fuel we could extract ourselves, if the country was not infested with climate change fetishists.
The NZ tax payer provided NZ$21.6 million (around $12.4 million USD) to support the recommissioning/refurbishment of additional diesel storage tanks at Marsden Point. The funding enabled rapid refurbishment and bringing the capacity back into service, Chanel Infrastructure likely would not have prioritised or funded at that speed/scale on its own (as part of broader storage opportunities on the site). The NZ taxpayer subsidised refurbished asset enhances Channel’s infrastructure without the company bearing any cost.
Stevie, is that u Steve Levell, General Manager, IPL subsid. of Cannel Infrastructure, another lavishly tax-paid corporate lobby scam of NZ govt.?
If so, you should maybe just shut up.
If not, same. Remember to eat the govt slop when u are hungry.
Hard as nails anon. I was attempting to paint the whole scam as a bad thing!
All comments have proven validation, so you need to do two things;
1. Sign the petition to re-open Marsden Point and begin drilling & extraction of oil & gas, and
2. Vote for the New Zealand Loyal Party this November, and let others know thata true NZ First agenda will be applied when NZ Loyal arrives in Parliament!
But where the heck are they? Registration? Bus tour? Protests?
This was the plan all along when the refinery was shut down. Marsden Point to be an import terminal.
Now we are being led to believe the government saved the day.
When the decision was made to close the refinery the govt. said they could do nothing because it was privately owned.
The govt. now pays the privately owned company the refurbishment costs.
Have I missed something?