RWE Dea receives Silver Award at WorldMediaFestival

RWE Dea AG won the Silver Award at this year’s WorldMediaFestival for the documentary “North Sea Gold”. The film realised by Steinlein & Partner Filmproduktion last year, documents life and work on Germany’s only oil drilling and production platform Mittelplate located at the southern edge of Schleswig-Holstein’s Wadden Sea tidelands.more

RWE Dea completed farm-in to West of Shetland Licences

Farm-in to Licences P1631 and P1832 is completed and the first well is planned to spud in autumn 2013.more

RWE Dea continues to grow

Following the successful preceding years, RWE Dea AG once again substantially improved its result: at EUR 685 million, the operating result exceeds that of the previous year by 23 per cent (2011: EUR 558 million). In fact, this is the best operating result in the company’s history as an upstream enterprise so far. The main reasons for the further substantial surge in earnings during the last financial year are reported to have been the slightly higher crude oil and gas prices as well as currency effects, but also lower costs thanks to successful exploration projects against the backdrop of production kept at a stable level.more

"We have it in our power to decide whether the earth's living spaces survive or not" - RWE Dea talked to Prof. Antje Boetius, deep-sea research scientist and professor of geomicrobiology at Bremen University

Extreme depths and eternal darkness: Prof. Antje Boetius' research work looks into the question of how life is even possible under such circumstances and what parameters it is influenced by. This is also of interest to RWE Dea since oil and gas exploration and production operations are taking place in increasingly remote corners of the earth. team: talked to Prof. Boetius and Dr. Christian Bücker, Head of Research and Development at RWE Dea.more

RWE Dea enters West of Shetland Licences

RWE Dea has reached an agreement with Valiant Causeway to farm-in to Licences P1631 and P1832, and participate in the drilling of the Handcross prospect in the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), West of Shetland.more