You can’t do that when you are working but you can when you are not. “So there are lots of ideas, the key is not to be doing too much that is my hardest point.” Breare will leave the company’s New Plymouth office on Friday after nearly seven years as chief executive. Her departure also means leaving roles as New Zealand Upstream Energy vice-president, Todd Offshore deputy CEO, and Petroleum Exploration Association of New Zealand chairwoman. Closing the door on more than 30 years in the oil and gas sector in the United Kingdom, Asia and New Zealand won’t be easy, she said.