Gazprom Germania held several subsidiaries in Europe, including pipes and large underground gas storage facilities in Rehden, Jemgum and Haidach.
[5] Securing Energy for Europe is active in natural gas sales and marketing, trading, exploration and production, as well as in several large underground storage facilities, many formerly partially owned by Gazprom-Germania.
[8] Securing Energy for Europe owns shares in: Roman Kupchinsky, who immigrated from a refugee camp in Austria to Brooklyn, NY, in 1949 and worked for the CIA, was the director of the Ukrainian Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty from 1989 to 2002.
The German authorities viewed the transfer as illegal for such critical infrastructure of the gas handling, and issued a legal order to control the assets of the former Gazprom Germania.
[22] On November 14, 2022, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action decreed that the company would immediately be nationalized and full ownership was transferred to the German state.