NZEC has permits covering 1.93 million acres in New Zealand with conventional and unconventional oil and gas opportunities. Its near-term work program focuses on increasing production from existing wells in the Tikorangi and Mt. Messenger formations through low-cost reactivations and uphole completions, with three new wells also planned. This is expected to increase NZEC's production to over 2,300 boe/d by the end of 2014. NZEC also has multi-zone exploration potential across its acreage and will start drilling high-impact exploration wells later in 2014.