New Zealand Oil & Gas advises the PMP 38158 (Tui) Joint Venture has approved drilling two additional wells in the permit: Pateke 4H infill development well; and Oi exploration well. The operator of the permit, AWE, has negotiated an agreement to use the semi- submersible rig Kan Tan IV to drill the wells in the second half of 2013. Pateke-4H targets a newly mapped northern extension of the field (Pateke North) that is not being accessed by the current producing well, Pateke-3H.

The Oi exploration well is 13 kilometres northeast of the Tui field in approximately 120 metres of water.