Innovation in Energy Award
This award recognises a breakthrough innovation that is creating significant value for customers, communities, organisations, or the wider energy sector.
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OMV New Zealand
Pohokura pipeline
finalist
Innovation in Energy Award
New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards 2021
While most of NZ's population isolated at home during Covid-19 lockdown, 80 people created a unique isolation bubble on the Normand Baltic ship off the Taranaki coast. They were repairing the undersea pipeline supplying 20% of NZ's gas.
It was a world-first - a gas pipeline had never been repaired this way underwater and certainly not with Covid-19 restrictions. A year in the planning, the project's multiple innovations spanned engineering science, technology, process, human resources and stakeholder engagement.
Completed successfully and safely, a week ahead of schedule, OMV has created a bank of learnings for global initiatives of this nature.