Texan oil company Anadarko says it's too early to know if oil drilling in the Canterbury Basin has come up dry.
Greenpeace said today the exploratory well drilled off the Otago coast, about 60 kilometres northeast of Dunedin, has failed to yield any oil.
It would be the second such failure for Anadarko, after a well off the Taranaki coast also came up dry last month.
And its unlikely they'll stick around to try again. good riddance. And now they're gone, perhaps the government could get a real plan?