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1. The Geopolitics of the
Dutch Natural
Gas Fields
Iakovos Alhadeff

2. The Groningen field is a Dutch natural gas field, and it is Europe’s largest
gas field.
Picture 1
http://www.timera-energy.com/content/uploads/2013/05/field-map.jpg
There are larger Russian gas fields, but they are located in West Siberia and
not in Russia’s European part, and therefore they are Asian gas fields. The
South Pars/ North Fields is the king of the gas fields, located in the Persian
Gulf. The South Pars/North Fields belongs to Qatar (2/3) and Iran (1/3). At
the following Wikipedia table you can see the world’s ten largest gas fields.
Picture 2

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_natural_gas_fields
The table is outdated though, and the second largest gas field in the world is
the field of Galkynysh in Turkmenistan, which in the table appears as the 6th
largest. You can read about it at the following BBC article titled “China's
growing demand for Turkmenistan's gas”, November 2014.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30131418
As you can read at the following Reuters article, titled “Dutch government
cuts Groningen gas field production”, June 2015, the Dutch government
decided to reduce Groningen’s production, due to the earthquake activity
that is associated with its exploitation. This is an old story but the Dutch
governments never dared to stop exploiting Groningen. According to
Reuters it will be difficult for the Netherlands, and for Europe too, to replace

4. the natural gas quantity which will be lost due to Groningen’s reduced
output.
“Dutch government cuts Groningen gas field production”, June 2015
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/23/netherlands-gas-groningen-
idUSL8N0Z928L20150623
At the following article from the Russian state owned RT (Russia Today),
titled “Dutch govt says sorry for ignoring danger over gas field
earthquakes”, March 2015, you will read that the Russians accuse the Dutch
for not taking the necessary measures in order to protect the Dutch citizens
from the earthquakes caused by Groningen.
“Dutch govt says ‘sorry’ for ignoring danger over gas field earthquakes”,
March 2015.
http://www.rt.com/news/236985-netherlands-gas-field-earthquakes/
The Groningen field is competing with Russia’s Gazprom in Northern
Europe. The Russian gas already travels to the Netherlands through the Nord
Stream and NEL pipelines (Russia-Baltic Sea-Germany-Netherlands). See
picture 3.
Picture 3

5. Moreover the agreement for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, which was signed
in September 2015, and which will double the Russian gas which will travel
to Germany through the Baltic Sea from 55 to 110 billion cubic meters is
not irrelevant to the problems posed by the Groningen field.
England is also facing problems with her energy security too, because the
British gas production of the North Sea is falling, and England has already
become a net importer of gas. Norway and the Netherlands are facing falling
productions too, and the British have turned to the Qataris for liquefied
natural gas (LNG). However the Persian Gulf is a very insecure region and
no one can assure the British that there will not be a war in the future, which
will interrupt the flow of Qatari gas to Great Britain.
The Baltic Sea energy corridor is by far the safest energy corridor for
Northern and Northwestern Europe. If however the leftist parties of the
European South flood northern Europe with Muslim immigrants, as Mateo

6. Renzi did in Italy in 2014 and Alexis Tsipras did in Greece in 2015, there
will be a sharp rise of Islamism in Northern Europe, and the Russo-German
pipeline networks will not be that safe anymore.
Neither it is an accident that Geremy Corbyn, the new president of the Labor
Party in England, is an anti-American who believes that the American
soldiers are similar to ISIS. Remember that many Russian oligarchs have
their billions in the City of London, and they make massive investments in
England, gaining political support. It is true of course that Jeremy Corbyn
also loves the Islamists and asks for more Muslims immigrants in the UK.
Qatar is another country that massively invests in the UK, and Qatar
promotes Muslim immigrants in Europe. Finally remember that the Russians
gave to the Royal Dutch Shell a 10% stake in the Nord Stream 2 project.

7. Renzi did in Italy in 2014 and Alexis Tsipras did in Greece in 2015, there
will be a sharp rise of Islamism in Northern Europe, and the Russo-German
pipeline networks will not be that safe anymore.
Neither it is an accident that Geremy Corbyn, the new president of the Labor
Party in England, is an anti-American who believes that the American
soldiers are similar to ISIS. Remember that many Russian oligarchs have
their billions in the City of London, and they make massive investments in
England, gaining political support. It is true of course that Jeremy Corbyn
also loves the Islamists and asks for more Muslims immigrants in the UK.
Qatar is another country that massively invests in the UK, and Qatar
promotes Muslim immigrants in Europe. Finally remember that the Russians
gave to the Royal Dutch Shell a 10% stake in the Nord Stream 2 project.