Economy
Selling the Statfjord gas
Gas has been used in many European countries since the19th century, but it was first in the 1960s – after the Netherlands began production and exports from the major Groningen field – that a common market for this commodity emerged in Europe. The SovietUnion, Algeria and Norway gradually followed the Dutch as gas exporters in the1970s and 1980s. An infrastructure for production, transport, storage andconsumption was constructed as demand increased.