Uniper SE mentioned Wednesday it’s open for expressions of curiosity for its world helium enterprise, amongst belongings it has agreed to promote to fulfill European Fee circumstances in approving Uniper’s bailout by Germany in 2022.
“The transaction perimeter will comprise a portfolio of worldwide helium buy, sale and storage agreements, and a fleet of 11,000-gallon helium ISO containers”, the multinational energy and fuel utility mentioned in an internet assertion. “No personnel will switch as a part of the transaction”.
Simply final month Uniper and QatarEnergy introduced a deal for Uniper to produce about 70 million cubic ft a yr of helium for as much as 15 years to QatarEnergy’s services in Ras Laffan. The agreed begin of deliveries was September 2025.
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The submission of expressions of curiosity runs via January 28. Subsequent can be a pre-qualification section, Uniper mentioned.
On December 20, 2022, the European Fee permitted state assist for Germany to recapitalize and take over Uniper, the Fee recognizing Uniper’s losses associated to the disruption of fuel deliveries amid the Russia-Ukraine struggle. To fulfill European Union honest competitors guardrails, Germany dedicated to ultimately withdrawing state possession and Uniper agreed to divest key companies.
Not too long ago Uniper opened for expressions of curiosity for its 20 % curiosity within the OPAL pure fuel pipeline. OPAL, or the Baltic Sea Pipeline Hyperlink, carries as much as 36 billion cubic meters (1.27 trillion cubic ft) a yr of fuel, based on operator and 80 % proprietor GASCADE Gastransport GmbH. Submissions are due January 29.
“OPAL is considered one of Europe’s largest transmission corridors, stretching roughly 740 kilometers [459.81 miles] from Lubmin in Germany to Brandov within the Czech Republic”, Uniper mentioned in a press launch December 15.
“As a part of Germany’s Hydrogen Core Community framework, OPAL’s northern section conversion has been accomplished in mid-December 2025, with the southern section to observe by the tip of 2030”.
“The transaction perimeter covers one hundred pc of the shares in Lubmin-Brandov Belongings GmbH & Co KG which holds the 20 % fractional possession in OPAL”, Uniper mentioned.
On December 1, 2025, Uniper mentioned it had accomplished the sale of the Datteln 4 coal-run energy plant in North Rhine-Westphalia to Czechia’s ResInvest Group. Commissioned 2020, the power has a internet output of 1,052 megawatts (MW). It provides energy and district heating to households, in addition to traction energy to rail operator Deutsche Bahn, based on Uniper.
On November 3, 2025, Uniper mentioned it had closed the divestment of Uniper Waerme GmbH, a district heating community serving over 14,400 prospects in Germany’s Ruhr space, to Steag Iqony Group. Waerme has a community of over 750 kilometers (466.03 miles), based on Uniper.
On July 9, 2025, Uniper mentioned it had bought its 18.26 % curiosity in AS Latvijas Gaze, which is concerned in pure fuel buying and selling and gross sales within the Baltics, to co-venturer Vitality Investments SIA.
On February 5, 2025, Uniper mentioned it had consummated the sale of its North American energy portfolio. The sale coated “energy buy and sale contracts and power administration agreements within the North American energy markets ERCOT (North, South, West and Houston), WEST (WECC and CAISO) and CENTRAL (MISO and SPP) via numerous transactions with a number of counterparties”, Uniper mentioned then. The tendencies excluded Uniper’s fuel portfolio and hydrogen-related actions.
On January 7, 2025, Uniper mentioned it had accomplished the sale of its gas-fired energy plant in Gönyű, to the native subsidiary of France’s Veolia SA. Commissioned 2011, the facility plant generates as much as 430 MW, based on Uniper.
Within the different gross sales accomplished towards the achievement of the bailout circumstances, Uniper in Could 2023 bought its marine gas buying and selling enterprise within the United Arab Emirates and its 20 % oblique stake within the BBL fuel pipeline between the Netherlands and the UK.
The divestment package deal, which have to be accomplished 2026, additionally contains an 84 % stake in Unipro in Russia, based on info on Uniper’s web site.
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