What we do
BUSINESS AREAS AND COMMODITIES
SEFE is a midstream energy company with a focus on Sourcing & Trading, Sales, Transportation, Storage and Gas Mobility as well as a focus on commodities Gas & LNG, Hydrogen, and Electricity. SEFE plays a central role in the stability of energy supply in Germany and Europe.
SOURCING & TRADING
SEFE’s subsidiary SEFE Marketing & Trading (SM&T) has an established global footprint with the ability to access markets globally not only to source and trade energy but also to optimize the company’s portfolio. SM&T is a leading player in European traded energy markets, combining physical and financial trading of gas, power, and environmental products with provision of risk management and market access services. As one of Europe’s largest traders of natural gas, SM&T has active EFET contracts with around 500 counterparties and trades a wide range of standard and complex products across all major European hubs.
SALES
Via its sales business SEFE Energy, SEFE supplies more than 50,000 customers in numerous markets, from small businesses to municipal utilities, regional gas suppliers, industrial companies, power plants and multinational organisations. With 30 years of experience in the European energy market, SEFE is a leading supplier of gas, electricity and green energy products in Europe and operates in Germany, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and the Czech Republic.
TRANSPORTATION
We continue to build on our leading position in energy transportation through strategic partnerships in natural gas pipelines and LNG transport projects. With our extensive expertise in LNG handling and transport, we are ideally positioned to meet future market dynamics, such as the transition to hydrogen and green gases in Europe. By investing in the transport of green gases and hydrogen, we are paving the way for future security of supply.
STORAGE
Energy storage contributes to a large extent to the success of the energy transformation in Germany and Europe. Gas storage guarantees a secure gas supply, functions as a cornerstone of an affordable energy system, and provides a storage solution for renewable energy in the future. We market a working gas volume of nearly 7 billion cubic meters at four storage locations via our storage facility operators. This equals more than 25% of Germany’s total gas storage capacities.
GAS MOBILITY
SEFE via its subsidiary SEFE Mobility launches projects that enable the efficient use of gases in the mobility of today and tomorrow as a clean fuel. The focus is on the development of an infrastructure for supplying trucks and cars with compressed (CNG) and liquified (LNG) gas. SEFE Mobility operates CNG filling stations in Germany and the Czech Republic and offers its business and private customers a wide range of products and services.
GAS & LNG
In the near-term natural gas and LNG are the lynchpins of ensuring energy supply to Europe, whilst future carbon-neutral energy sources are ramped up. As a result of the new energy market reality in Europe, the importance of LNG has grown drastically. SEFE trades physical LNG, freight and financial derivatives, supported by a portfolio of third-party purchases and sales. The physical LNG deal activity spans key supply and demand centres and ranges from single-cargo deals to mid-term strips, to larger multi-cargo deals of 20-years or more. In the medium run, SEFE seeks a balanced and diversified portfolio of short, medium and long-term supply contracts from European pipeline gas and global LNG from different geographic regions.
HYDROGEN
Next to securing energy supply for Germany and Europe, SEFE also drives the green energy transition. Hydrogen is a key enabler on the way to a climate-neutral energy supply of the future and is therefore of importance to SEFE's strategy of driving forward the green energy transition. Building on its expertise in gas infrastructure, SEFE aims to position itself early along the hydrogen value chain and help accelerate the market ramp-up of green hydrogen.
ELECTRICITY
Electricity is yet another energy carrier SEFE is offering tailor-made solution. SM&T, as a key player in the European energy trading markets, carries out physical and financial trading in power. SEFE Energy, in turn, provides customers with fixed and flexible power products tailored to their needs to efficiently manage the cost of electricity in companies and achieve greater, more effective savings.
