THE WORLD OF WINTERSHALL
IN FIGURES – 2013
1
billion euros will be invested by Wintershall
in the next two years in exploration and
production in Norway.
3
2
months was the time it took for
Wintershall to conduct a seismic
campaign in Block CN-V in Argentina in 2013. We suspect there are
unconventional reservoirs in the
western province of Mendoza.
9
12
26
liters of crude oil are contained in the
casing for a computer and the keyboard.
There are another 2 liters in the monitor.
4:23
minutes is the time the paternoster lift
at the Wintershall headquarters in
Kassel takes to travel up the twelve
stories and back down.
x12
Eiffel Towers all piled up on top of each
other would reach the same height as the
deepest well of Achimgaz, our joint venture
with Gazprom. That is 3,800 meters.
years is how long Wintershall and RWE Dea
have already been producing crude oil from the
artificial production platform Mittelplate in the
Wadden Sea. Overall, they have produced
27 million tons of oil – and they have done so
without any incidents.
54
60
wells were sunk in Germany by
Wintershall from 2011 to 2013.
90
years is the duration of the test for the biopolymer
Schizophyllan in Bockstedt in North Germany. In this,
our largest research project, we are investigating
whether and how this natural fungus-based thickening
agent can significantly improve the oil recovery rate.
20
50
platforms in the southern
North Sea are controlled by
our Center for Remote
Controlled Operations
(RCO). This is essential
for the commercial production from smaller
reservoirs – and contributes
to enhanced safety by
reducing the number
of helicopter flights.
licenses – that’s how many licenses Wintershall
holds in Norway. We are the operator for more
than half of them. That makes us the largest
license-holder in the country after Statoil.
years is how long Barnstorf in
North Germany has been home
to Wintershall. Thank you, dear
Barnstorf, for being great neighbors!
This year, we will celebrate.
percent of chemical products are made from crude oil, in
particular plastics. Polyethylene is used for iPads, cling film
and butter dishes. CDs and DVDs are made from the
transparent plastic polycarbonate.
62
years ago the well Düste 7 struck oil
in the oil field Aldorf 1. This first well is
still producing crude oil today – and the
horsehead pump nods 5,000 times a day.
100
percent of the associated gas produced
with oil is used by Wintershall in routine
operations instead of being flared.
260
kilometers from the city of Abu
Dhabi lies the sour gas field
Shuwaihat. We are planning up to
three wells there as operator for
the technical evaluation of the field.
1,600
171
oil platforms are located
in the North Sea alone.
1,000
types of oil are processed worldwide by refineries.
Important brands, in addition to Brent and WTI,
include Saharan Blend from Algeria, Arab Light
from Saudi Arabia and Urals from Russia.
airplanes of the model A360 weigh as
much as the 75,000 pipes that would be
needed to build South Stream on the
bottom of the Black Sea.
5,600
17,000
43,000
70,000
meters is the final depth a new
production well for the Mittelplate
production island in the Wadden Sea
National Park is targeted to reach.
But that’s not all: a tie-in well will be
drilled at 4,500 meters and will also
produce oil.
elements can be found in crude oil
as an unrefined natural product.
meters of rock and drill samples are stored
in our drill core warehouse in Barnstorf. The
oldest material in this extensive library allows
us to look back 500 million years into the
history of the earth.
tons is the weight of the platform Brage,
which is situated about 125 kilometers off the
coast of Norway. Wintershall is the first foreign
company to take over a production platform
as operator from Statoil.
400,000
tons of domestic crude oil have been produced by
Wintershall to date with its own production operations
in Germany. That is as much as Saudi Arabia delivers
to Germany in 20 years.
600,000,000
euros flow into the Lower Saxony state coffers every year as
royalties on domestic oil and gas production. That is three times
as much as Lower Saxony receives every year in dividends from
its 20 percent shareholding in Volkswagen AG.
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