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The Heide GmbH refinery in Hemmingstedt is Germany’s northernmost crude oil processing plant and a member of the Klesch group since 2010. Here, more than four million tonnes of crude oil are processed in one year. A great part of the petrol and diesel used in the region comes from the Heide refinery. Almost all flights departing from Hamburg airport are supplied with aviation turbine fuel produced there. The fuel oil supplied is sufficient to heat 250,000 homes between Flensburg and Hamburg. In addition to that, over 450,000 tonnes of petrochemical products are produced in the Heide refinery each year.

Brunsbüttel – a central market hub
With a storage capacity of 495,000 tonnes and an annual product turnover of 2.15 million tonnes, the tank farm in the Brunsbüttel oil port serves as the hub for the Heide refinery logistics chain. All logistics between the Brunsbüttel tank farm and the refinery is handled through pipelines. This way, the crude oil is pumped from the Brunsbüttel storage facility to Hemmingstedt for processing. At the same time, the finished products are transported back to the Brunsbüttel storage facility.

The company is part of TotalEnergies, a broad energy company. Total Bitumen Deutschland GmbH is a leading producer of high-quality bitumen grades for road construction and industry and offers the largest product range in this market segment in Europe. TotalEnergies' entire bitumen activities in Germany and Northern Europe are managed from Brunsbüttel.
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As the operator of the Mittelplate Drilling and Production Island, Wintershall Dea Deutschland GmbH contributes to over 50 percent of total crude oil production in Germany. From Mittelplate Island, which was built seven kilometers off the west coast of Schleswig-Holstein, the raw material is piped to the processing facilities near Friedrichskoog. This is the location of Wintershall Dea's Holstein oil production facility. The oil is processed in the facilities of the onshore station and then forwarded to Brunsbüttel and the customers. At ChemCoast Park Brunsbüttel, the raw material is refined by the processing industry into a wide range of products. Oil production is a job engine on the West Coast: 1,000 jobs are directly related to domestic oil production.
Widely deviated wells, some of which are more than nine kilometers long, also tap the reservoir from land. Since 1987, Wintershall Dea has extracted a total of around 40 million tons of oil safely and in an environmentally compatible manner. The annual production royalties paid to the state of Schleswig-Holstein make a significant contribution to the national economy of the state.