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Wintershall Dea AG

Wintershall Dea is Europe’s leading independent gas and carbon management company with more than 120 years of experience as an operator and project partner along the entire E&P value chain.

Lobbying Activity

Response to Carbon capture utilisation and storage deployment

31 Aug 2023

The fight against climate change is one of the biggest challenges the world is facing today. Wintershall Dea will contribute its competencies and assets to be part of the solution by offering technologies that can decarbonize industry and secure low-carbon energy supply - as an architect, so to speak - along the entire value chain. With our carbon capture and storage (CCS) and low-carbon hydrogen projects, we aim to save annually up to 30 million tonnes of CO2 by 2040. This corresponds to almost sixty percent of the total emissions of the German steel industry. Experts agree: without CCS, achieving net zero emissions will not be possible. At Wintershall Dea, we are drawing on our experience from over a hundred years of gas and oil production and applying our know-how to this new challenge. Wintershall Dea already has been awarded four CCS licenses (two in Norway, one in Denmark, one in the UK). In Norway, we have been awarded the Luna license located 120 km west of Bergen (up to five million tonns of CO2 yearly storage capacity) as well as the Havstjerne license located 135 km southwest of Stavanger (estimated yearly injection capacity seven million tonnes of CO2 per year). These two licenses are an important building block for the development of an extensive CCS value chain connecting European heavy industry with Norwegian North Sea basins. Wintershall Dea is as well a leading partner of the Greensand consortium, one of the most advanced carbon capture and storage projects in Europe with a final yearly injection capacity of up to eight million tonnes of CO2 per year. In March 2023, together with our partner INEOS, we stored the first quantities of CO2 stemming from a Belgian emitter. This is only possible because of a bilateral agreement between Belgium and Denmark on cross-border CO2 transport. Finally, Wintershall Dea recently has been awarded the Camelot license in the UK by the North Sea Transition Authority, with a storage potential of up to six million tonnes of CO2 per year. Other important projects include CO2nnectNow in the German city of Wilhelmshaven, where a logistical CO2 hub is planned. Emissions from industrial companies can be transported from all over Germany to Wilhelmshaven and from there by ship or pipeline to storage sites in the Norwegian and Danish North Sea. A further plan is to build a state-of-the-art plant in Wilhelmshaven for the production of hydrogen from natural gas (BlueHyNow). Together with Equinor, we plan as well to build a CO2 pipeline from Wilhelmshaven in Germany to the storage sites in Norway, with an annual transportation capacity of 20 to 40 million tonnes of CO2. With these projects in mind, we urge the European Commission to build on the recommendations that have been elaborated in the CCUS working groups in the last year and incorporate them timely in the upcoming European CCUS strategy. The development could be further driven by the Net-Zero Industry Act with its ambitious CO2 capacity injection goal. We welcome that goal and are eager to contribute to its realization - as long as we are not held responsible for circumstances outside of our control and as long as a viable business environment is in place. The latter demands further de-risking measures, including funding both at the European and national level at an initial stage, including measures like Carbon-Contracts for Difference. The German CCfD scheme is a very good example of a meaningful de-risking measure, compensating companies for 15 years of additional CAPEX & OPEX costs, thus hedging companies against price risks. At the same time, the funding provided via auction measures introduces a kind of "cost control" into that scheme. As a further measure, we invite the European Commission to put pressure on MS to overcome the hurdles of the London Protocol. Last but not least, we encourage a broad public debate on CCS that does not fade.out risks of the technology, but at the same time highlights its enormous potential.
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Meeting with Jutta Paulus (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

7 Oct 2022 · Methane strategy

Response to EU Methane Strategy

4 Aug 2020

Wintershall Dea welcomes the Commissions` efforts to reduce methane emissions and the intention to present a methane strategy. Being convinced that continuously reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry is essential for addressing global climate change and important for the role of gas in the energy transition, Wintershall Dea has developed, together with BP, Eni, Equinor, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Florence School of Regulation, Repsol, the Rocky Mountain Institute, Shell and Total, recommendations for a suite of policies to reduce methane emissions within the context of Europe`s Green deal and in order to reach climate neutrality by 2050. These recommendations are attached.
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Meeting with Mathieu Fichter (Cabinet of Commissioner Corina Crețu)

11 Feb 2016 · Winter Gas Package

Meeting with Christian Linder (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

7 Jan 2016 · Energy Union, technologies, efficiency, investment

Meeting with Bernd Biervert (Cabinet of Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič)

16 Jul 2015 · OPAL

Meeting with Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President) and

18 May 2015 · EU - Russia relations; OPAL