Exit Completed: company sold its business/assets or its part of the business to a local partner and leaved the market

Exited Exit Completed

Wintershall is the largest German gas and oil company.

Exit Completed: company sold its business/assets or its part of the business to a local partner and leaved the market

Exited Exit Completed

Top 100 largest companies in Russia by revenue

Top 100
Revenue(RF), mln.USD
1456
Staff(RF), 2021
220
Glob.Revenue, mln.USD
5338
Assets(RF), mln.USD
1100

The Wintershall Dea Supervisory Board approved a principle decision by the Management Board to exit Russia. As a consequence, Wintershall Dea intends to fully exit Russia in an orderly manner complying with all applicable laws and regulations. Intends to fully exit Russia, write off $1.1 billion investments in Russia. "We no longer see prospects for energy cooperation with Russia in the foreseeable future. Our decision is final. We have started to take appropriate steps in recent weeks. We started the process of closing our office in St. Petersburg, reducing the number of our local colleagues. We also returned our expatriated colleagues from Russia back to their home jurisdictions. We are also considering various options for exiting assets," said the head of Wintershall Dea, Mario Meren. But exiting Russia gets harder by the day.

The Company Statement
December 20, 2023

Wintershall Dea will exit Russia: Wintershall Dea to deconsolidate Russian segment from financial reporting and to record one-off non-cash charge of €5.3 billion in the fourth quarter relating to the deconsolidation as well as other Russia-related impairments. Significant financial flexibility maintained. Wintershall Dea Joint Ventures in Russia economically expropriated. Wintershall Dea intends to fully exit Russia in an orderly manner complying with all applicable legal obligations. German Wintershall Dea completely wrote off its share in the Nord Stream operator due to the impossibility of estimating the terms and costs of restoring the damaged gas pipeline against the background of geopolitics, the company's report says. Wintershall Dea will cut some 500 jobs, or roughly a quarter of its staff, in a separation of its Russian activities. Vladimir Putin signed decrees according to which the shares of two foreign companies, namely the German Wintershall DEA and the Austrian OMV in joint ventures (JV) with Gazprom, will be forcibly sold to Russian owners. The British oil company Harbor Energy announced that it is purchasing from the German chemical concern BASF and LetterOne Mikhail Fridman all their shares in the oil and gas company Wintershall Dea. The deal will cost Harbor Energy $11.2 billion. As part of the deal, Harbor will acquire all of Wintershall's production assets, with the exception of Russian ones.

December 21, 2023Harbor Energy buys all Wintershall Dea's production assets, except Russian ones
December 19, 2023For the first time, the Russian authorities took away assets from owners from “unfriendly” countries. The shares of two companies in the joint venture with Gazprom will be transferred to the Russians
September 11, 2023Putin extended the ban on gas purchases from a joint venture with OMV and Wintershall above the established price
September 05, 2023Wintershall Dea will complete the separation of the international business from the joint venture with the Russian Federation by mid-2024
August 06, 2023European companies suffer €100bn hit from Russia operations
June 26, 2023The miser pays thrice. Western companies clinging to Russia are losing markets, business and reputation
June 23, 2023The miser pays three times. How Western companies clinging to Russia lose markets, business and reputation
April 28, 2023Exposing the connections between Wintershall’s Siberian gas fields and Russia’s military supply chain
April 26, 2023Wintershall Dea called the final decision to leave Russia
February 22, 2023Putin banned Gazprom from buying gas from a joint venture with Wintershall Dea and OMV at a higher price than the regulated price
January 25, 2023Ukrainian group demands full investigation on war crimes, after Spiegel/ZDF expose German government’s greenlighting of investment in Russia
January 24, 2023Convinced that Wintershall has Ukrainian blood on his hands
January 24, 2023Fuel for Russia's bombing campaign
January 17, 2023Gazprom's largest European partner is leaving Russia, recording a loss of more than 5 billion euros
January 17, 2023Wintershall Dea will exit Russia
December 23, 2022Gazprom's Trojan horse in the EU. How the German oil and gas giant Wintershall became a victim of the Russians
December 17, 2022Wintershall Dea announced its intention to leave the Russian Federation after the introduction of regulation on the products of the joint venture
November 04, 2022A German Company's Questionable Involvement in Russia
March 02, 2022Wintershall Dea writes off financing of Nord Stream 2
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