Tuiono used written Parliamentary questions to ask minister Megan Woods whether she was considering banning all oil and gas exploration after the 2020 Block Offer, which allowed firms to bid for the opportunity to explore for oil and gas onshore.
Woods replied that no decisions had been made on the future of the Block Offer system.
"Policy regarding gas demand and supply will be considered alongside the Energy Strategy to ensure the best outcomes in terms of the energy trilemma: supply, security, and affordability."
Woods said no decisions had been made about whether to extend the offshore exploration ban to onshore exploration.
"We haven't made any subsequent decisions around that. One of the most important pieces of work that we'll do, which is a recommendation of the Independent Climate Commission and it's also, from memory, part of the Infracom report, is a consolidated Energy Strategy," Woods said.
"We'll pull together all the various work streams that we've got. We'll be starting that in Q3 of this year."
The Climate Change Commission's advice to the Government on its first three emissions budgets said it should "develop a comprehensive energy strategy to ensure actions to decarbonise are considered across the whole energy system".
It said the strategy should include "setting a system-wide renewable energy target and increased investment in energy efficiency. A strategy would help Aotearoa leverage its extensive renewable electricity to decarbonise areas like transport and industry and reduce fossil fuel use in buildings".
Woods said such a strategy would allow the Government to be "volumetric" in the way it looked at future energy needs.
"We know how much gas we're going to need for a transition. We'll also know how much is consented, so we'll have a good evidence base for making subsequent decisions," Woods said.
She said the Government would be able to know what volumes of energy would be required as the Government builds up renewable generation and phases out energy derived from fossil fuels.
"We know what we're going to need for a phase-out, we know what the build-up will be, and we know what the phase-down will look like, we know what volumes will be required," Woods said.
She said the strategy would look at all energy uses, including the energy demands of decarbonising industry.
"Not much of it is actually electricity, it's more of a question of energy - how much of it is being used for industry and process," Woods said.
Tuiono was also critical of the terms of the existing oil and gas exploration ban after Greymouth Petroleum was given permission to conduct a seismic survey for oil and gas in an area adjacent to its existing permit off the coast of Taranaki.
Woods said that as part of the oil and gas exploration ban, terms attached to existing permits were kept intact. This meant existing permit holders were allowed to conduct seismic surveys in areas adjacent to their permits - a right those permit holders had before the ban.
The catch is that should anything be discovered offshore, there is no ability to convert that permit into a production permit to actually pull the fuel out of the ground.
"They have the ability to do exploration on an adjacent area, but there isn't a provision to convert that to a production permit because it would be a new permit," Woods said.
"It can't be granted as a new permit," she said.
Woods said what would come of the survey would likely be a "very interesting set of data".
"As for why they'd do it, I don't know that's a question for them [Greymouth Petroleum]," Woods said.
