Groningen gas field [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Groningen gas field
The Groningen gas field is a giant natural gas field located near Slochteren in Groningen province in the northeastern part of the Netherlands. Discovered in 1959, it is the largest natural gas field in Europe and the tenth-largest in the world.
History.
After two previous unsuccessful wells were commissioned to search for oil and gas, on 22 July 1959, the Slochteren 1 well, drilling to a depth of , discovered the huge 2.8 trillion cubic meters (100 trillion cubic feet) gas field
Reichskommissariat
Reichskommissariat () is the German designation for a type of administrative entity headed by a government official known as a "Reichskommissar" (). Although many different such offices existed primarily throughout the Imperial German and Nazi periods in a number of different fields (ranging from public infrastructure and spatial planning to ethnic cleansing) it is most commonly used to refer to the quasi-colonial administrative territorial entity established by Nazi Germany in several occupied countries during World War II. While officially located outside the German Reich in a legal sense