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Airport fuel crisis: Govt offers to help as flights cut - NZ Herald
All supplies of aviation fuel to Auckland Airport have been cut after a digger trying to extract kauri logs cut the oil pipeline from Marsden Point near Ruakaka on Thursday.
McNeill said the issue began on Thursday when a leak was spotted in the pipeline that supplies aviation fuel from Marsden Point to Wiri, South Auckland, near the airport. The 170km pipeline is constantly monitored and on Thursday a drop in pressure was noticed. A helicopter was put up to survey the pipeline and the leak was identified on farmland at Ruakaka, about 8km from the Marsden Point refinery.A crew is now excavating around the leak to ascertain what has happened and how to resolve the issue.