2005

May 18

WINGAS signs a contract with Rohöl-Aufsuchungsgesellschaft (RAG) and Gazexport for Austria's biggest natural gas storage project. The Haidach facility will be able to store up to 2.4 billion cubic meters of natural gas, around 30 percent of Austria's total annual gas consumption. The storage facility, the second largest in Central Europe, is to be commissioned in 2007. In addition to using the field as a storage facility, the Haidach gas storage project also involves linking the facility to the German-Austrian gas hub at Burghausen.

July 11



	Opening of the natural gas compressor station at Eischleben

Official start: Germany's Economics Minister Wolfgang Clement, Thuringia's Economics Minister Jürgen Reinholz, and WINGAS Chairman Dr. Rainer Seele officially open the new gas compressor station at Eischleben near Erfurt.
The joint ground-breaking ceremony also marks the start of further extensive expansion work on STEGAL, the natural gas pipeline that runs through Saxony and Thuringia. With these construction activities WINGAS will increase its east-west transport capacity by around 50 percent at a cost of around 200 million euros. An additional 50 million euros will be spent on expanding the WEDAL gas pipeline link through North Rhine Westphalia.

September 23



Stadtwerke Hameln gives WINGAS's innovative supply concept the thumbs up

The Hamelin municipal utility will base its future energy supply on a partnership with WINGAS. Representatives of the two companies have signed a natural gas supply contract. The utility will be connected through a rededicated fuel pipeline to WINGAS' MIDAL pipeline link, which runs through central Germany. WINGAS responded to the utility's invitation to bid by proposing an innovative supply and technology concept, which was selected as the winning bid. The new technical connection concept will give the utility better control of its natural gas supplies and enable it to save costs.

October 13

Russia's Gazexport and WINGAS agree to make the first natural gas supplies through the Nord Stream. Starting in 2010, WINGAS will receive nine billion cubic meters of Russian gas a year for 25 years through the Nord Stream to supply consumers in Germany and other Western European countries - over 200 billion cubic meters of gas in total. This is equivalent to the total volume of this environment-friendly energy medium needed to supply Germany's private households for approximately six years.

December 21

WINGAS supplies gas to customers in Germany, Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Austria, and now also the Czech Republic: As of the beginning of 2006, the glass manufacturer Vetropack is to start receiving its natural gas from WINGAS. Vetropack Moravia Glass, which is part of the Vetropack Group, manufactures a large variety of packaging glass products at Kyjov in Southern Moravia.