Reden underground gas storage

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Since the 1990s, Gazprom and Wintershall’s JV Wingas has sold gas in Germany and other European countries on behalf of the two companies, which have invested nearly 3 billion euros in the construction and development of both transport infrastructure and underground storage facilities.

The Saxonian town of Reden houses the biggest gas storage facility in Western Europe, a 250 million year old Zechstein reservoir located at a depth of nearly 2,000 meters. With over 4 bcm of stored gas, this underground facility holds enough to provide gas to almost 2 million single-family homes for a year. Another facility, which may become the second largest in Europe, is being built in Heidach, Austria. With these two facilities in operation, the total storage capacity of Gazprom-Wingas’ joint projects will amount to 8 bcm of natural gas.