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Company type | German limited liability company (GmbH) |
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Industry | Gas and oil (exploration and production) |
Predecessors | |
Founded | 1894 (Wintershall), 1899 (DEA, as Deutsche Tiefbohr-Actiengesellschaft, DTA) |
Founders | Carl Julius Winter, Heinrich Grimberg (Wintershall), Rudolf Nöllenburg (first Managing Director of DTA) |
Headquarters | Kassel and Hamburg, Germany |
Areas served | Northern Europe, Russia, Latin America, Middle East and North Africa |
Key people | Mario Mehren (CEO) Hugo Dijkgraaf (CTO) Paul Smith (CFO) Thilo Wieland (Region Russia, Latin America and Transportation and Interim Responsible MENA) |
Production output |
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Revenue | €5.9 billion[1] (2019) |
€2.8 billion (2019) | |
Number of employees | 2,847[2] (2019) |
Website | wintershalldea.com |
Wintershall Dea GmbH is a German gas and oil producer. The joint venture was created in May 2019 by the merger between Wintershall Holding GmbH and DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG. BASF SE has a 67% stake in it, with the other 33% being held by LetterOne, whose main ultimate owner is the Russian business magnate Mikhail Fridman. As of 2020[update] it was planning listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange.[3]
In 2021, Wintershall Dea was ranked no. 25 out of 120 oil, gas, and mining companies involved in resource extraction north of the Arctic Circle in the Arctic Environmental Responsibility Index (AERI).[4]
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