Country profile
The Netherlands
For the Netherlands, Rare Context holds 1,281 assets and rights in 7 classes, farmland prices for 12 regions, nitrogen space in 73 Natura 2000 areas, grid congestion status for 859 grid areas and substations (on request) and figures on mine production. It is the number 3 producer of sand and gravel (industrial) among the 20 countries the USGS lists.
Assets and rights
Each class links to its page for the Netherlands.
- Oil and gas fields568
- Oil and gas licences155 · 2,804,293 ha
- Subsurface licences132 · 858,958 ha
- CO2 emitters37 · 55,352,070 tCO2e
- Nitrogen space holdings114
- Substations271
- Processing plants4
Farmland prices
The Netherlands: €96,608/ha for arable and €77,609/ha for permanent grassland in 2024.
- Arable
- Permanent grassland
| Year | Arable | Permanent grassland |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 96,608 | 77,609 |
| 2023 | 91,154 | 71,203 |
| 2022 | 85,431 | 67,857 |
| 2021 | 77,583 | 62,818 |
| 2020 | 72,702 | 59,147 |
Values in EUR/ha.
Nitrogen space
173,347 mol/year of nitrogen deposition space available across 73 Natura 2000 areas. The largest:
- Veluwe103,963 mol/year
- Maasduinen41,381 mol/year
- Voornes Duin4,713 mol/year
- Wierdense Veld4,502 mol/year
- Weerribben4,463 mol/year
- Rijntakken2,509 mol/year
- Meijendel & Berkheide2,365 mol/year
- Solleveld & Kapittelduinen1,332 mol/year
Grid capacity in the Netherlands
The Netbeheer Nederland capaciteitskaart gives each grid area and substation a congestion status for offtake (drawing power from the grid) and for feed-in (supplying power to it). We hold that status for 588 grid areas and 271 substations in the Netherlands.
| Network | Held | Offtake status | Feed-in status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supply areas of the regional grid operators | 566 | 566 | 566 |
| TenneT congestion areas | 22 | 21 | 20 |
| High-voltage substations | 271 | 271 | 271 |
Counts of the statuses we hold; the statuses themselves are available on request.
We hold grid congestion for the Netherlands.Offtake and feed-in status per grid area and substation: available on request.
Request this dataMine production
2 commodities in the USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries, the ones where the Netherlands ranks highest first.
| Commodity | Mine production, 2025 | World rank | Reserves | World rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sand and gravel (industrial) | 68,000,000 t/year 0% | #3 of 20 | — | — |
| Salt | 5,400,000 t/year −7% | #12 of 23 | — | — |
World rank among the countries the USGS lists for each commodity, largest first. A percentage is the change on the year before.
Largest owners in the Netherlands
By number of assets and rights they own, operate or hold here. Grid operators and users are not counted.
- Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V.181
- Wintershall Noordzee B.V.92
- Eni Energy Netherlands B.V.84
- Tenaz Energy Netherlands B.V.84
- Vermilion Energy Netherlands B.V.67
- ONE-Dyas B.V.64
- TAQA Offshore B.V.64
- TotalEnergies EP Nederland B.V.59
- RockRose (NL) CS1 B.V.56
- Dana Petroleum Netherlands B.V.48
- Staat der Nederlanden30
- ExxonMobil Producing Netherlands B.V.26
Data on this page
- AERIUS Register open data. AERIUS Register open data, Public Domain Mark 1.0.
- EU Union Registry public data. EU Union Registry public data, CC BY 4.0, verified 2026-10-24.
- Eurostat apri_lprc. Eurostat apri_lprc, Commercial reuse allowed with attribution.
- Netbeheer Nederland capaciteitskaart. Netbeheer Nederland capaciteitskaart, No licence stated.
- NLOG. NLOG, Per https.
- USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026. USGS Mineral Commodity Summaries 2026, CC0 1.0.