Oil well drilling rigs - New Zealand - Taranaki Region

Date: 1920

Reference: MapColl-832.2gbha/1920/Acc.15989

Description: On verso: [Sketch showing the harbour and the position of the wells, New Plymouth Road, and the proposed site for a refinery jetty] 21 x 31 cm. Quantity: 1 map(s). Physical Description: Coloured, 22 x 33 cm. Scale indeterminable

Date: 1979

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-532

Description: Three scenes in this cartoon show the varying reactions to the discovery of another natural gas and condensate field at Toko. In the top right three Ministry of Energy Resources officials are sitting around a table as another man enters the room announcing a huge oil field has been found at Toko. They look dismayed by the news because they are still trying to decide what to do with Maui gas. In the lower left scene Muldoon rejects a proposal that Toko oil will be refined into motor spirit because too much has already been spent on organising carless days. In the bottom right scene D.S.I.R. scientists have discovered they can turn Toko oil into synthetic butter. Extended Title - What if we strike oil? Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 320 x 460 mm

Date: 1932

From: [Ephemera of quarto size relating to petrol, motor fuels, petroleum industry, drilling]

By: Moturoa Oilfields Ltd

Reference: Eph-B-PETROL-1932-01

Description: Pamphlets advising shareholders about the Moturoa Oil Fields, near New Plymouth, and the drilling progress. Quantity: 5 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Offset prints and pamphlets, sizes varying up to 260 x 210 mm.

Date: 24 February 1988 - 24 Mar 1988

From: NZOHA Customs Department Oral History Project Part III

By: Campbell, Kevin James, 1927-1995

Reference: OHInt-0102/4

Description: Kevin James Campbell, (known as Jock Campbell), born New Plymouth 1927. Gives family background - father, James Campbell, came from Scotland ca 1910 and farmed at Waitara, also pioneered Road Transport in New Plymouth. Refers to Campbell Motors Buses having to be sold in the Depression (1930s). Maternal great grandfather came out on the ship `Phoebe Dunbar', settling in Waitara. Mentions uncle, Hugh Purdy, owner of a pedigree jersey stud farm and refers to Weddell Cup. Discusses mother's lengthy illness and death when he was 14 years. Recalls: Presbyterian Sunday School; discipline; contact with Maori; interest in pipe bands and involvement as President of the Taranaki Brass and Pipe Band. Recalls joining Lands and Survey Department New Plymouth, 1945-1948, an interesting period of land development for Returned Servicemen after World War II and time of Land Sales Registration. Describes change to Customs Department, New Plymouth 1948. Mentions Harry Tizard (father of MP, Bob Tizard) and Norm Laking. Discusses: rapid promotion; annual registration of fishing boats; local whitebaiting customs on the Waiwakaio ? River; administration of the Shipping and Seamen Act on behalf of the Marine Department; marriage and family; successful treatment for a shadow on the lung at the sanitorium, Pukeora (1954-1955); petrol tax; social life in Christchurch; duties as staff training officer, with reference to introduction of training courses towards Certificate of Commerce. Gives background to the establishment of the Customs Admininstration for Developing Countries. Refers to ECAFE Conference. Talks about period as Senior Advisory Officer in charge of Tariff Research (1971-1973), referring to metrification (metrication ?), taxation of Motor Vehicle Industry and preferential system. Discusses return to New Plymouth as Collector of Customs (1973-1975). Refers to Oil Exploration in the area; Schlumberger and Brown & Root, the international company that erected the Maui Platform; Think Big projects. Interviewer(s) - Hugo Manson Venue - 254 Te Moana Road, Waikanae Arrangement: Tape numbers - OHC-001640-001642; OHLC-000360-000362 Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete OHA-1838.

Date: 1961

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

Reference: B-137-402

Description: Cartoon shows six vignettes: an oil rig goes "phut"; the Federation of Labour demonstrates against voluntary unionism; a small boy gets hauled before the Commission of Education; a New Zealander cries "Halp" as New Zealand sinks at the news that the UK has joined the European Common Market. However Mr Hanan announces a reduction in death duties, so a man reading this news puts a gun more cheerfully to his own head. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink 230 x 255 mm, on sheet 280 x 380 mm.

Date: 1976

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-115

Description: This cartoon features a huge oil drilling platform in the middle of the sea. It is being pulled at speed like a giant water ski by a boat which has attached a tow-line to the lower part of the rig. A helicopter is chasing it. One man on the rig is explaining to another what happened Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and letratone, 305 x 383 mm

Date: 2013

From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons

Reference: DCDL-0026675

Description: A couple phone the government, represented by the Beehive, and say that 'We have just got a scratch and win card in the mail and it says we've won a worry-free future!', but they are worried in case it is a scam. The voice of the government replies that it is not a scam and that 'all you need do to collect your prize is to scratch the idea of protest...while we sell off your assets!' Refers to action taken by the government in 2013 making it illegal to interfere with any structure or ship in an offshore area that is to be used in mining, with an exclusion zone of 500 metres. By November 2013 Anadarko preparing to do exploratory drilling for oil in the Tasman Basin caused a resurgence in protests. Was a 'worry free future' and sale of assets worth the loss of citizens' right to protest? Colour and black and white versions available Quantity: 2 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons

By: Setford News Photo Agency

Reference: DCDL-0026781

Description: A crew member fishing from the Greenpeace ship Vega, catches a fish labelled 'Protest laws' which he describes as a 'toothless gumfish'. In the background an oil drilling ship awaits... On 26 November 2013 a crew member and former Green Party co-leader, Jeannette Fitzsimons, said that the Vega defied the recently enacted protest law by entering the 500 metre zone around the Andarko vessel, the Noble Bob Douglas and forcing it to delay drilling. On 27 November Anadarko exercised its licence to drill for oil west of Raglan, forcing the Greenpeace Oil Free Seas Flotilla to abandon its protest in favour of a legal challenge. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

By: New Zealand shipping gazette (Periodical)

Reference: DCDL-0025517

Description: Shows a boat approaching an oil rig on which an extremely large fly has landed. The heading says that the 'risky organism clinging to the next big rig' is 'a bit bigger than a fruitfly' according to NIWA. However, a voice on the boat comments: "OK, but it's not your standard fruitfly!" Refers to a warning issued by Graeme Inglis, Niwa's principal scientist for marine biosecurity, who said that 'when the next big semi-submersible drilling rig arrives in New Zealand waters this summer, it could have up to 58,000 kilograms of living material clinging to its hulls.' (See Stuff, 10 July 2013) Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2013

From: Hawkey, Allan Charles, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Waikato Times].

By: Waikato Times (Newspaper)

Reference: DCDL-0026637

Description: A boy on the seashore at Raglan holds a a shell to his ear and asks his father, a worried-looking fisherman, 'What does an oil spill sound like?' Raglan Maori first learned of the oil company Anadarko's plans to prospect off Raglan's coast in November 2013. Tainui hapu environmental spokeswoman Angeline Greensill said that the Government had passed Maori over when it had granted a licence to Anadarko, who would begin drilling in the Romney Prospect in the Taranaki Basin, west of Raglan, in November. Anadarko was held liable, with BP, for a 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill. There were fears of a similar spill at Raglan. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: [ca 1910]

From: Collis, William Andrews, 1853-1920 :Negatives of Taranaki

Reference: 1/2-021478-G

Description: Scene at Moturoa with oil rigs. Photograph taken by William Andrews Collis, circa 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: ca 1910

Reference: 1/1-007630-G

Description: Oil Derricks at Moturoa, New Plymouth, with Ngamoti beach on the right. Taken by an unknown photographer circa 1910. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).

Date: 2007

From: Smith, Ashley W, 1948- :[Digital cartoons published in the Shipping Gazette, MG Business, or Presto]

Reference: DCDL-0004655

Description: Shows a large gorilla, wearing a hard hat, drilling in New Zealand waters. In the background is a oil drilling rig and in the foreground is two men in a 'OMS' boat loaded with bananas for the gorilla. One of the men says "I think we should feed him and then tell him he's in the wrong spot ..". Refers to the arrival of the gigantic Ensco 107 drilling rig which will be drilling at the Kupe Gas and Maari oil fields and will be operated by Offshore Marine Services (OMS). Published in New Zealand Shipping Gazette Arrangement: This cartoon file was orginally delivered to the library within a sub-folder called 'NZ Shipping Gaz' which was inside a folder called 'AWS Cartoon Highlights, Nov'04-May'07' Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1980

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-135-639

Description: In the background of this cartoon Muldoon is standing beside an oil drilling rig labelled 'McKee no. 2' confidently proclaiming 'a brighter future'. In the foreground is another rig labelled 'Planning Council no. 1', which is drilling down into the ground. Beside it are two workers reading a newspaper with the headline 'Employment: towards an active employment policy'. Below the rig underground is a line of people waiting in a queue to receive the unemployment benefit. Extended Title - Because it has been confirmed that New Zealand is an energy-rich country, "I believe we can approach the 1980s and even more so the 1990s with a confidence none of us has felt for some time." Mr. Muldoon on the McKee no. 2 oil find. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, letratone, white gouache and letratone, 452 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: November 1948

From: Tourist and Publicity

By: Christensen, Edward Percival, 1907-1982

Reference: 1/2-039436-F

Description: Oil derricks at Ngamotu Beach, New Plymouth. Paritutu Rock can be seen in the distance. Photographed in November 1948 by Edward Percival Christensen. Rigs identified by R Lambert of Taranaki Museum as, from left, Dobson 1, Moturoa 2, Moturoa 4, and Moturoa 1 (in the distance). Other Titles - New Plymouth, Taranaki. Oil Derricks and Paritutu Rock. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.

Date: [1890s-1930s]

From: Head, Samuel Heath, 1868-1948 :Negatives

Reference: 1/1-007256-G

Description: Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head, Christchurch. Source of descriptive information - Negative register. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative, 6.5 x 8.5 inches