Delivery timeframes
Review points for the Fuel Security Plan.
We will review the Fuel Security Plan during the scheduled updates such as the National Fuel Plan update in 2027 and the review of the Minimum Stockholding Obligation (MSO) regime in 2029. At these review points, we will check progress, revisit assumptions, and make sure the plan stays useful and effective as conditions change.
Timeframes for delivering actions
Focus area 1: Resilience against global supply shocks
| 1.1 |
Participate in the IEA’s coordinated efforts to ensure stable fuel supply. |
2025 -onwards |
| 1.2 |
Participate in biennial global emergency exercises coordinated by the IEA and adopt new recommended actions to enhance emergency preparedness |
2025 - onwards |
| 1.3 |
Monitor the minimum stockholding obligation, which currently requires fuel importers to hold 28 days' cover for petrol, 21 days' cover for diesel and 24 days' cover for jet fuel onshore |
2025 - onwards |
| 1.4 |
Make regulations requiring importers (with more than 10% market share) to hold an additional 7 days of diesel |
2025 - 2030 |
| 1.5 |
Engage with key fuel export nations to secure continued market access to fuel in supply disruptions. |
2025 - onwards |
| 1.6 |
Improve the government’s visibility of information on fuel sources, storage and distribution through information disclosure regimes. |
2025 - 2030 |
| 1.7 |
Review minimum stockholding obligation regulations in 2026 to determine whether to require all importers to hold an additional 7 days of diesel. |
2025 - 2030 |
| 1.8 |
Information campaigns on fuel demand management and fuel switching to alternative fuels. |
2025 - onwards |
| 1.9 |
Regularly review and update fuel demand forecasts |
2025 - onwards |
Focus area 2: Domestic resilience
| 2.1 |
Monitor fuel-related risks on the National Risk Register, as part of delivering the National Risk and Resilience Framework |
2025 -onwards |
| 2.2 |
Test the National Fuel Plan in a national-level exercise at least once a year and participate in fuel sector exercises. |
2025 - onwards |
| 2.3 |
Implement location-specific minimum stockholding obligation for jet fuel at Auckland Airport. |
2025 - 2030 |
| 2.4 |
Monitor the quality of automotive and marine fuel to ensure imported products meet our quality, performance, and safety requirements. |
2025 - onwards |
| 2.5 |
Identify opportunities to improve readiness and response arrangements for the fuel sector through emergency management legislative reform. |
2025 - 2030 |
| 2.6 |
Review and update the National Fuel Plan in 2027. |
2025 - 2030 |
| 2.7 |
Review the minimum stockholding obligation regime in 2029, including whether changes are required to deliver regional resilience |
2025 - 2030 |
| 2.8 |
Engage with fuel companies to ensure there is sufficient alternative distribution capacity (eg fuel trucks and drivers) to respond to disruptions. |
2025 - onwards |
| 2.9 |
Review the Petroleum Demand Restraint Act 1981 |
2025 - 2030 |
Focus area 3: Supporting domestic alternatives
| 3.1 |
Explore the role of Special Economic Zones to facilitate projects that enhance fuel security. |
2025 -2030 |
| 3.2 |
Provide an enabling regulatory environment to encourage domestic production of low-carbon alternative fuels. |
2025 - onwards |
| 3.3 |
Support deployment of EV infrastructure through the Supercharging EV Infrastructure programme. |
2025 - 2030 |
| 3.4 |
Support uptake of heavy goods vehicles, which use alternative fuels. |
2025 - 2030 |
| 3.5 |
Introduce a new standard for renewable diesel. |
2025 - 2030 |
| 3.6 |
Investigate whether there are regulatory barriers impeding the use of alternative fuels in the shipping and aviation sectors, that improve fuel security. |
2025 - 2030 |
| 3.7 |
Engage with industry and investigate regulatory barriers to the use of alternative shipping fuels that improve fuel security. |
2025 - 2030 |
Focus area 4: Resilience in a transitioning market
| 4.1 |
Monitor patterns of fuel supply and demand to ensure consumers have access to products. |
2025 -onwards |
| 4.2 |
Monitor progress on resilience measures at Auckland Airport as recommended by the 2019 Government Inquiry into the Auckland Supply Disruption |
2025 - onwards |
