Wintershall

Wintershall Holding GmbH
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryMining of chemical and fertiliser minerals
extraction of petroleum
mining and quarrying Edit this on Wikidata
PredecessorBurbach-Kaliwerke Edit this on Wikidata
Founded13 February 1894; 130 years ago (13 February 1894)
FateMerged with DEA to form Wintershall Dea in 2019
SuccessorWintershall Dea
HeadquartersKassel, Germany
Key people
Mario Mehren (2015-Present)
RevenueIncrease €4.094 billion (2018)[1]
Increase €1.733 billion (2018)[1]
Increase €829 million (2018)[1]
Number of employees
2,000 (2015)
ParentBASF
Websitewww.wintershall.com

Wintershall Holding GmbH, based in Kassel, was Germany's largest crude oil and natural gas producer. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of BASF. The company was active in oil and gas exploration and production with operations in Europe, North Africa, South America as well as Russia and the Middle East region. Wintershall employed more than 2,000 people worldwide. In the 2018 financial year the company produced around 171 million barrels of oil equivalent (boe) of oil and gas. Revenues amounted to 4.09 billion euros.[2]

On 1 May 2019, Wintershall merged with DEA to form Wintershall Dea. BASF holds 67% of the shares in the joint venture.

  1. ^ a b c "Wintershall with record production" (PDF). Wintershall. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Wintershall Dea" (PDF). Wintershall Dea. Retrieved 2020-05-20.