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Gas field in Groningen
This decision was made despite the energy crisis in Europe. The reason was the earthquakes caused in the gas production area.
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said his country will not continue to exploit the Groningen gas field due to the earthquakes it caused, which hit local residents, he said. Euractive.
Groningen is one of the largest gas fields in the world and the largest in Europe. It could potentially replace gas supplies from Russia.
The gigantic gas field in the Netherlands once produced over 40 billion cubic meters of gas per year, equivalent to 10% of EU consumption.
Groningen experienced its first small tremors in 1986. Since then there have been hundreds of other aftershocks. Although most of them can only be detected with special tools, a 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck the province in 2012, resulting in thousands of property damage claims.
Since 2014, the Dutch government has imposed increasingly stringent restrictions on field production and production has dropped from 54 billion cubic meters in 2013 to 4.5 billion cubic meters expected this year.
Rutte told reporters he did not want to continue developing the Groningen gas field, but added that at a meeting in Prague, EU leaders agreed on the need to lower gas prices before discussing the energy crisis on Friday. .
Representatives of EU countries will also meet in Prague from 11-12 October for an informal energy council. New measures could be taken in the coming weeks to tackle the energy crisis, in particular measures directly targeting high gas prices.
As for the Netherlands, Rutte said bills would be reduced “by limiting prices for individual households to a certain amount of regular use of gas and electricity”.
We recall that the European Commission announced it today European countries have filled their gas deposits to 90%.
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