Gazprom, Wintershall Address Cooperation Issues

A Meeting was held at the Gazprom headquarters today between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee and Rainer Seele Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of Wintershall Holding,  to address future cooperation issues. This meeting has gained importance consiering that Rainer Seele will be occupying the post of the Chairman of the Executive Board and CEO of OMV starting from July 1, 2015.

The meeting highlighted that Gazprom and Wintershall had a history of successful cooperation within a number of key projects, which ultimately had a positive impact on the gas industry evolution as well as enhanced the reliability of Russian gas supplies to Europe. In particular, the companies are jointly developing the Yuzhno-Russkoye field and the Achimov deposits of the Urengoyskoye field; the Nord Stream gas pipeline has been built and nowadays is fully operational. Gazprom and Wintershall work together in gas sales and storage across Europe and jointly support art projects.

Alexey Miller wished the best of luck to Rainer Seele on taking over new responsibilities and expressed his confidence that Rainer Seele would do a lot to strengthen the ties between Russia and Europe.