Facts

Every value links to its source, and to the source's own record where it has one. Licences and last-checked dates are per row.

Fact	Value	Source
Location	Friesland	NLOG · NLOG reuse terms · checked 24 Oct 2026
Status	Closed (stopped producing)	NLOG · NLOG reuse terms · checked 24 Oct 2026
Commodities	gas	NLOG · NLOG reuse terms · checked 24 Oct 2026
Start year	1988	NLOG · NLOG reuse terms · checked 24 Oct 2026
Discovered	1980	NLOG · NLOG reuse terms · checked 24 Oct 2026
Onshore or offshore	Onshore	NLOG · NLOG reuse terms · checked 24 Oct 2026
Operator	Vermilion Energy Netherlands B.V.	NLOG · NLOG reuse terms · checked 24 Oct 2026

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How its operator compares

Vermilion Energy Netherlands B.V. owns 46 of the 532 oil and gas fields in the Netherlands in our data with a named owner; 4 owners have more. Counts cover the oil and gas fields in our data that name an owner, holder or operator; an asset with several owners counts for each.

Operator in Netherlands	Rank	Oil and gas fields	Share
Nederlandse Aardolie Maatschappij B.V.	1st	162	30%
Tenaz Energy Netherlands B.V.	2nd	67	13%
Wintershall Noordzee B.V.	2nd	67	13%
Eni Energy Netherlands B.V.	4th	51	9.6%
Vermilion Energy Netherlands B.V.	5th	46	8.6%

Timeline

Dated facts about this oil and gas field from its sources, oldest first.

1980Discovered
1988Production started

Operator and place

Subsurface licences attached to this oil and gas field

Start licence geothermal energy Leeuwarden I291 ha

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