Wingas GmbH is a gas distribution company located in

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. It is a subsidiary of

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, which held its shares through W&G Beteilligungs-GmbH & Co. KG.

History

Wingas was established in 1993 by

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subsidiary

Wintershall 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 Afr ...

and Gazprom. Since 25 October 2007, Wintershall owned 50% plus one share, while Gazprom's stock is 50% less one share. In December 2013, Wintershall and Gazprom agreed an assets swap which made Wingas a wholly owned subsidiary of Gazprom. BASF and Gazprom completed the swap of assets by September 30, 2015.

Operations

Wingas operates in Germany,

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, the

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, the

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and the

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. In Germany, it has a 20% market share. Wingas's subsidiary Astora GmbH & Co. KG operates the Western Europe largest natural gas storage facility in

Rehden Rehden is a municipality in the district of Diepholz, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately eight km east of Diepholz. The 44 TWh Rehden natural gas storage Natural gas is a commodity that can be stored for an indefinite pe ...

, North Germany, with a working gas volume of and represents roughly a fifth of the entire storage capacity in

. Another large gas storage facility with capacity of is the

Haidach gas storage Haidach gas storage is an underground natural gas storage in the town of Haidach near Salzburg, Austria. As of the end of 2018 with a capacity of ~2.9 billion cubic meters (bcm) it is the third largest (after Rehden with volume of ~4.7bcm and B ...

. In 2004 Wingas purchased the

Saltfleetby Gas Field Theddlethorpe Gas Terminal (TGT) is a former gas terminal on the Lincolnshire coast on ''Mablethorpe Road'' at Theddlethorpe St Helen close to Mablethorpe in East Lindsey in England. It is just off the A1031 and next door to a holiday camp and M ...

in the United Kingdom, which is operated by Wingas Storage UK and is used for gas storage. Besides natural gas, Wingas leases the free transmission capacity in fiber-optic cables to commercial customers.Website Wingas Fibre optic. Retrieved 2015-08-25
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