Country Report
Germany upstream summary
*Please note that this report only includes an Excel data file if this is indicated in "What's included" below
Report summary
Germany is the eighth largest producer of oil and gas in Europe, although since 2013 it has entered terminal decline. The oil and gas industry in Germany has been in existence since 1860, when the first oil discovery was made at Wietze in Lower Saxony. Prior to the development of the North Sea, Germany's oil and gas reserves were by far the largest in Western Europe. Today, Germany is primarily a gas producing country, with almost all production onshore.
Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Key facts
- Location maps
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Key companies
- Leading operators
- Other operators
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Geology
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Introduction
- Onshore
- Offshore
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Northwest German basin
- Overview
- Reservoirs
- Source rocks
- Key producing areas
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Molasse basin
- Overview
- Reservoirs
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Upper Rhine Valley basin
- Overview
- Reservoirs
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Offshore
- Overview
- Reservoirs
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Introduction
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Exploration
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Licensing
- Overview
- Onshore
- Offshore
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Drilling
- Drilling activity
- Key recent activity
- Future activity
- Ban on hydraulic fracturing
- Historical drilling activity
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Licensing
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Reserves and resources
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Reserves
- Reserves by shore status
- Reserves by basin
- Reserves by report
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Reserves
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Production
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Liquids
- Overview
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Gas
- Overview
- Gas quality and calorific value (CV)
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Liquids
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Infrastructure
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Oil infrastructure
- Overview
- Key import pipeline
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Gas infrastructure
- Overview
- Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2
- OPAL, NEL, EUGAL
- JAGAL and STEGAL (non-operational)
- MEGAL
- MIDAL and WEDAL
- Norpipe, Europipe and NETRA
- TENP, NETG and METG
- DEUDAN
- Other pipelines
- LNG regasification
- Gas storage
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Oil infrastructure
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Costs
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Capital costs
- Capital expenditure by location
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Operating costs
- Operating expenditure by location
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Capital costs
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Policy and regulation
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Key legislation
- Overview
- Federal Mining Act (Bundesberggesetz (BBergG))
- Shale gas legislation
- Regulatory body
- State participation
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Key legislation
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Fiscal terms
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Overview
- Upstream
- Midstream and downstream
- Current fiscal terms
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Concessions
- Licence periods
- State equity
- Fiscal/contractual ring-fences
- Bonuses, rentals and fees
- Royalty
- Corporate income tax (corporate tax and solidarity surcharge)
- Municipal trade tax
- EU temporary solidarity contribution (2022-23)
- Other production or profit taxes
- Environmental/CO2 taxes
- Abandonment provision
- Indirect taxes
- Dividend withholding tax
- Domestic market obligation (DMO)
- Contractor revenue entitlement
- Sample cash flow
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Overview
Tables and charts
This report includes 41 images and tables including:
- Liquid production by basin
- Key facts: Table 1
- Country map
- Reserves and contingent resources at 01/01/2024
- Liquids and Gas Production 2023
- Net Acreage 2024
- Liquids and gas reserves
- Remaining reserves
- Germany: major geological basins
- Northwest German basin
- Molasse and Upper Rhine Valley basins
- Germany: active blocks by basin
- Germany: current licences
- Germany: E&A drilling activity
- Reserves and resources: Table 1
- Reserves and resources: Table 2
- Reserves and resources: Table 3
- Contingent resources
- Production: Table 1
- Production: Table 2
- Production: Table 3
- Production: Table 4
- Liquid production by basin
- Production: Table 5
- Production: Table 6
- Production: Table 7
- Production: Table 8
- Production: Table 9
- Production: Table 10
- Gas Production by Basin
- Production: Table 11
- Production: Table 12
- Germany: oil infrastructure map
- Germany: gas infrastructure map
- Costs: Table 1
- Costs: Table 2
- Costs: Table 3
- Costs: Table 4
- Fiscal terms: Table 1
- Fiscal terms: Table 2
- Fiscal terms: Table 3
What's included
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