National Fuel Plan
Supporting Plan [SP 04/24] (updated August 2024)
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) is the lead for fuel disruptions. For more information on the fuel security situation for New Zealand following the recent events in the Middle East, visit MBIE’s website.
The National Fuel Plan is a readiness and response framework for the fuel sector. It is also for:
- Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE),
- National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), and
- Civil Defence Emergency Management Groups.
It includes agreed roles and responsibilities for agencies. It documents agreed operational communications and coordination. The plan is designed for the lead government agency in:
- the National Crisis Management Centre,
- the Fuel Sector Coordinating Entity (chaired by MBIE), and
- CDEM Group Emergency Coordination Centres.
Fuel companies, central and local government and CDEM Groups worked together to develop this plan. The plan replaces the National CDEM Fuel Plan 2012. It expands on operational aspects of MBIE’s Oil Emergency Response Strategy 2008. NEMA and MBIE will review this plan every three years.
The plan covers major disruption to fuel supply. Including petroleum, diesel, aviation fuel and marine fuel. It incorporates recommendations from the Government Inquiry into the Auckland Fuel Supply Disruption.