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Controversial Deal - A German natural gas storage facility and Gazprom

March 18, 2014

Wintershall, subsidiary of the Bayer chemicals giant, is selling a substantial part of Germany’s natural gas infrastructure to Gazprom, Russia’s state-run gas supplier - including the Rehden storage facility near Bremen, the largest in western Europe. In return, Wintershall is being granted direct access to Russian natural gas fields.

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The deal was signed in 2013 after lengthy preparations, but the Ukrainian crisis now puts it in a different light. Report by Christian Uhlig