Wintershall has closed a deal for Statoil offshore assets for $ 1.25 billion

Wintershall - "daughter" of the German BASF's petrochemical and long-standing European partner of "Gazprom" GAZP + 1,76%, completed the acquisition of the assets of the Norwegian Statoil on the Norwegian continental shelf for $ 1.25 billion, the report said Statoil. These assets include 51% of the license to develop the field Aasta Hansteen and operator rights in it, the share of deposits in the Vega and Gjoa, as well as four fields around Voring.