Todd Energy says it has identified the root cause of safety problems which has shut its Kapuni gas plant for nearly a month.
The plant is the country's only domestic producer of food-grade CO2 since the Marsden Point closure last year.
Todd Energy says the problem had been identified as a safety valve releasing ammonia.
It expected liquid CO2 production to restart early next month.
The closure has sent gas prices skyrocketing close to 600 percent, under some distributors.
BOC has had to ration the gas, and that has left business without the products they need - like Garage Project, one of New Zealand's largest breweries, that ran out of carbon dioxide at one site - leaving more than 60,000 litres of unfinished beer.
Todd Energy chief executive Mark Macfarlane says the plant would start off at 30 percent capacity on reopening.
2 comments
gas
Posted on 21-01-2023 08:25 | By dumbkof2
good idea keep production down put the price up and make record profit
Eggs in a basket
Posted on 22-01-2023 12:52 | By CliftonGuy
Clearly, nobody has considered the perils of putting all your eggs in one basket. And this not only applies to the issue of CO2, the Marsden Point closure will make us beholden to overseas refiners at their whim.
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