Royal Dutch Shell, Europe’s largest oil company, made a natural gas discovery (June 2009) at a record depth of 1,376 meters (4,515 feet), the greatest water depth ever in Norway, in the northern Norwegian Sea that may equal the size of Norway’s annual production of the fuel. The find was made in the Gro prospect 360 km offshore Broennoeysund in Nordland and is estimated to hold 10 to 100 billion standard cubic meters of recoverable gas. The country had a net gas output of 99 billion cubic meters in 2009. The find may the biggest since Ormen Lange in 1997