In 2019, New Zealand experienced prolonged outages at Pohokura gas field, which provides approximately 40 percent of the natural gas supply. This outage coincided with other outages at gas fields, and in a time of constrained hydro-generation due to dry spring conditions. This led to record natural gas spot market and wholesale electricity prices, which has emphasised the need to ensure that the regulatory settings around the disclosure of important information to the market are fit for purpose. A wide range of parties have highlighted their concerns with the current level of information being disclosed by gas market participants, particularly if this information has significant downstream impacts, including impacts on businesses who may not be involved in the natural gas industry.