• CERAWeek
  • March 18 - 22, 2024

Thilo Wieland

Wintershall

Executive Director, Exploration & Production in Russia, North Africa & South America

Thilo Wieland, a member of the Wintershall Board of Executive Directors since December 2015, is responsible for exploration and production in Russia, North Africa, and South America. An industrial engineering and business management graduate, Mr. Wieland supervises issues related to Wintershall’s activities in gas transport projects, including trans-Baltic lines Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2, and their onshore units OPAL and NEL. He began his career in 1999 at Wintershall Erdgas Handelshaus in Berlin. Since then, Mr. Wieland has held various positions within the Wintershall Group, including Head of Department, Natural Gas Supply West at WINGAS. Until 2013, he represented Wintershall's shareholder interests in the Nord Stream and South Stream projects before becoming Vice President, Strategy and Portfolio Management, within the Wintershall Group. As General Manager of Wintershall Libya, he has been responsible for the activities of Germany’s largest internationally active oil and gas producer in the North African country since 2014. Mr. Wieland studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Berlin.

Sessions With Thilo Wieland

Wednesday, 13 March

  • 05:05pm - 05:45pm (CST) / -

    European Gas Transit: A tangled knot

    Panel Gas

    Record flows of pipeline natural gas from Russia to Europe have occurred in 2018. Meanwhile the European Union presses on with completion of the Single Energy Market. The future will see new pipelines come into operation and new commercial terms for some core transit routes. All parties—sellers, importers, and transit routes—will want to establish the new basis for reliable and secure flows of natural gas to continue.