WINGAS GmbH



WINGAS headquarter in Kassel, Germany

WINGAS GmbH & Co. KG is based in Kassel, Germany, and is a joint venture between Wintershall and the Russian company OAO Gazprom. The company has been active in the gas supply industry since 1990 and supplies natural gas to public utilities, major industrial enterprises and regional gas distribution companies.

WINGAS has a network of pipelines that is now more than 2,000 kilometres in length and so far Wintershall and Gazprom have invested about 3 billion euros in developing the WINGAS gas pipeline system. The network links the major gas reserves in Siberia with the growing markets in Western Europe and also provides WINGAS with access to the developing European spot markets. With its natural gas storage facility at Rehden, which has a working gas volume in excess of four billion cubic metres, WINGAS possesses about one fifth of the total storage capacity available in Germany. The natural gas storage facility at Rehden is the largest natural gas reservoir in Western Europe.

WINGAS has, amongst other things, already secured considerable capacity in the BBL (Bacton-Balgzand-Leiding) pipeline planned under the North Sea. The new pipeline will transport up to 16 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year from the Netherlands to the UK, starting around 2007. In order to secure supplies further, WINGAS and Gazprom have reserved storage capacities in the UK. The Saltfleetby field is the UK’s largest onshore natural gas field, approximately 200 kilometers east of Manchester.

Homepage of WINGAS GmbH & Co. KG
www.wingas.de