{"id":4221,"date":"2023-01-23T09:23:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T03:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4221"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:05:53","slug":"where-is-groningen-gas-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/where-is-groningen-gas-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is Groningen Gas Field?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>About Groningen Gas Field<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The Groningen gas field is in Groningen province in the northeastern part of the Netherlands.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is the largest natural gas field in <strong>Europe.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This region of Groningen in the Netherlands has a gas field that began operations in 1963.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>During the 1980s, the area saw numerous earthquakes &#8211; minor enough to avoid large damage but big enough for local buildings to develop cracks.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Following these quakes, the Dutch government had earlier said that it would shutter the field in response to local protests.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>In Groningen, the <strong>ground subsiding<\/strong> has been caused by extraction alone over several years.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Such extraction causes rocks to contract &#8211; as the pores get to hold fewer and fewer hydrocarbons over time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What are the constituents of natural gas?<\/h3>\n<p>Natural gas is an odourless, gaseous mixture of hydrocarbons\u2014predominantly made up of methane (CH4).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/oil-and-gas\/netherlands-sticks-to-plan-to-close-groningen-gas-field-by-october-ft\/97241731\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Netherlands sticks to plan to close Groningen gas field by October: FT<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Groningen gas field in Groningen province of the Netherlands is the largest natural gas field in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4221","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}