Network Initiative of the Year

This category celebrates excellence in a network business where an initiative delivers outstanding results. This could be a success story about anything whether it is innovative asset management, engineering, IT system development, project management, a new energy initiative or customer focus.
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OMV

Restoring the Māui Field

finalist
Network Initiative of the Year
New Zealand Energy Excellence Awards 2022

OMV New Zealand deployed world-leading technologies as part of its eight-well campaign to restore production from the Māui gas field and ensure ongoing output until at least the end of the decade. The 4D seismic survey undertaken to find pockets of bypassed gas and condensate was the largest ever in New Zealand, while the technology deployed to enable precision geo-steering of the wells into the field's narrow crestal zones was also a first for the country.

Despite the challenges of Covid-19 and a highly technical repair required on an existing well casing, the project was completed within budget and last year saw OMV almost double the production from the Maui field and increase the expected recoverable reserves at Māui by 170 petajoules.