Refining

Mobil supplies about 22 percent (or 1.7 billion litres per annum) of the total fuels market in New Zealand. This includes regular and premium petrol, jet fuel, diesel, fuel oil and biofuels.  

About 85 percent of Mobil’s products are sourced from the only petroleum refinery in New Zealand, situated at Marsden Point, Whangarei.

The refinery is owned and run by The New Zealand Refining Company Limited (NZRC). Mobil owns 19.2 percent of NZRC.

Under a Processing Agreement with NZRC, Mobil is entitled to an allocation of refinery capacity in which it is able to refine its preferred crude oils into clean, high quality, finished products. 

The remaining 15 percent of products supplied by Mobil in NZ are sourced from overseas, including Singapore, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

Half of the Whangarei refinery's production (about 8 million litres per day) is delivered to the Wiri terminal at Auckland via a 170km pipeline. This multi-product pipeline delivers petrol, jet fuel and diesel to meet the demand of the Greater Auckland and Waikato markets.

The rest of the refinery's products are loaded over the Marsden Point wharf onto coastal petroleum tankers − M.T. Kakariki and M.T. Torea.  These ships deliver products to the various ports and terminals throughout the North and South Islands.

The vessels are chartered and scheduled by Coastal Oil Logistics Limited – a joint venture scheduling company owned by Mobil, Greenstone Energy, BP and Chevron.

Both the tankers are modern, double-hull vessels, each with a deadweight carrying capacity of about 38,000 tonnes (approximately 45 million litres).