Wintershall

Wintershall Holding GmbH
	Wintershall in Kassel
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Mining of chemical and fertiliser minerals; extraction of petroleum; mining and quarrying
Predecessor	Burbach-Kaliwerke
Founded	13 February 1894
Fate	Merged with DEA to form Wintershall Dea in 2019
Successor	Wintershall Dea
Headquarters	Kassel, Germany
Key people	Mario Mehren (2015-Present)
Revenue	€4.094 billion (2018)
Operating income	€1.733 billion (2018)
Net income	€829 million (2018)
Number of employees	2,000 (2015)
Parent	BASF
Website	www.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.

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

[US2018-1] "Wintershall with record production" (PDF). Wintershall. Retrieved 6 April 2019.

[2] "Wintershall Dea" (PDF). Wintershall Dea. Retrieved 2020-05-20.

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