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RWE Dea
Press release
Grammar school Domgymnasium Verden and RWE
Dea plan to make natural gas topics an exciting
subject for students
Verden, 28.08.2007, RWE Dea
The foundations for cooperation between the grammar school Domgymnasium
Verden and Hamburg’s RWE Dea AG have been laid. The partners agreed today to
make a concerted effort to promote applied natural sciences and to use practical
contacts to stimulate the students’ interest in occupations in the field of exploration
and production of natural gas and crude oil.
This cooperative venture is part of a junior talent promotion project launched by the
Association of German Crude Oil and Natural Gas Enterprises (WEG). This program is under
the auspices of Minister-President Christian Wulff and was devised in cooperation with the
participating schools and the Ministry of Education of Lower Saxony. Background: the
burgeoning demand for energy is leading to increased requirements as regards exploration
and production of natural gas and crude oil. To be able to master the challenges of the future,
the companies engaged in this sector require a highly qualified workforce. “Enterprises like
RWE Dea can offer dedicated young people attractive employment conditions in an
innovative and forward-looking industry”, says the Head of Corporate Communication at
RWE Dea AG, Uwe-Stephan Lagies.
“The Domgymnasium would like to make a contribution toward inspiring more young people
to consider technical jobs in the field of natural sciences. We consider this an immense
opportunity to organize practice-oriented and exciting lessons in cooperation with the
company RWE Dea. The newly created seminar subject in Lower Saxony is highly suitable
for this purpose,” says the school’s principal, Detlev Lehmann, who is delighted with this new
challenge.
As part of the pilot project which, in addition to the Verden project, also comprises three
further cooperative ventures between industry and selected schools in Lower Saxony,
training material is being developed for the new seminar subject in the senior grades. These
seminars are intended to give students an opportunity to acquaint themselves with topics to
do with natural gas and crude oil production and to find out how technical engineering
activities based on the theory of natural sciences are put into daily practice in real life. To this
end, RWE Dea offers guided tours of its facilities, internships for students and teachers,
active participation by employees of operations on site in project work as well as financial
support for equipment and materials. If the one-year pilot phase proves to be successful, then
the association project is to be extended to include other schools.
RWE Dea
Press release
Note to editors
RWE Dea AG, headquartered in Hamburg, is an international company operating in the field
of exploration and production of natural gas and petroleum. The company deploys
state-of-the-art drilling and production technologies and puts its many years’ experience
acquired to good use within the scope of its activities. RWE Dea has set new standards in the
fields of safety and environmental protection. RWE Dea has stakes in production facilities
and concessions in Germany, the UK, Norway, Denmark and Egypt and holds exploration
concessions in Algeria, Libya and Poland. Moreover, in Germany RWE Dea also operates
large subterranean storage facilities for natural gas. RWE Dea is part of the RWE Group, one
of Europe’s largest energy utilities.
Lower Saxony is the center of Germany’s natural gas production activities, which make a
substantial contribution to securing the domestic energy supply. More than 95 per cent of
domestic natural gas is produced in this state. Production by RWE Dea in the area between
the Elbe and Weser rivers amounts to more than 2 billion cubic meters of natural gas per
annum. This makes RWE Dea one of the major gas producers in Germany.