Gas storage facility Uelsen accident-free for 9,000 days
Storengy Deutschland pursues a clear goal: zero accidents.
We strive to protect our employees and our environment from damage, to minimise risks and to continuously increase safety standards. With success: the gas storage facility in Uelsen has been working accident-free for over 9,000 days - which is equivalent to around 25 years! Not a single work accident with downtime has been recorded at this storage facility since it was commissioned.
Hildegard Stüber, QHSE manager at Storengy Deutschland, is delighted with this success and emphasises: “Our aim is to make sure that our employees return home healthy and safe at the end of the working day. We minimise accident risks and health hazards with the support of our comprehensive occupational safety management and a corresponding safety culture. We train our employees very intensively in all accident prevention measures and create awareness of responsible behavior in the area of health and safety by repeatedly talking and informing about these topics. "
With the Uelsen natural gas storage facility located in the county of Bentheim, near the Dutch border, Storengy operates its largest pore storage facility in Germany. This is located in a former natural gas reservoir at a depth of around 1,490 metres. It was commissioned in 1997 and has a working gas volume of around 860 million cubic metres.
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