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The Netherlands is the EU's largest producer of natural gas, and has used 80 percent of its reserves, reports the local CBS statistics office. This leaves the EU with two options: buy more gas from Russia or increase liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports.
The Dutch budget has been affected by caps on extraction and plummeting wholesale prices. In 2015, gas accounted for only three percent of the country's revenue, and by 2013 the share was nine percent, the statistics office said. State income from gas dropped to โฌ5.3 billion in 2015, when two years previously it was โฌ15.4 billion, said the report.
The country relies heavily on the Groningen gas deposit that was discovered in 1959. With 940 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas reserves, the Netherlands produced 52 billion bcm last year. By comparison, Russia's Nord Stream gas pipeline has a capacity of 55 bcm per year. At the current pace, the Netherlands may run out of gas in 17 years.
"In the last 10 years Europe managed to keep its imports flat with lower consumption. Now much lower Dutch production cannot be mitigated by much lower consumption - most of the drop has occurred already. That means we will need higher imports from Russia or liquefied natural gas," said energy expert Thierry Bros in an interview with Bloomberg.
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