Greenpeace activists smeared in fake oil greet guests arriving at the part-Statoil sponsored Petroleum Summit dinner this evening. Twenty-six activists, looking like they had swum through an oil spill, lined up outside the entrance to the Auckland Museum Event Centre and called on Statoil to abandon its plans to drill for deep sea oil off the coast of New Zealand.The Norwegian oil giant has been granted a 15-year exploration permit for the Northland basin which lies off the coast of Ahipara beach. It will be looking to drill between 1,000 and 2,000 metres below the ocean surface.