Release: Gazprom Linde Engineering (728 GB)

Anonymous released 768,000 emails from the joint venture between Gazprom and Linde

Photo of a Linde Engineering helium plant from Twitter

This dataset includes 768,000 emails from Gazprom Linde Engineering, which specializes in designing gas and petrochemical processing facilities and oil refineries.

A joint venture between Gazprom and Linde, Gazprom Linde Engineering's clients include Gazprom, Gazprom Invest, Gazprom Neft, Linde, Novatek, Tatneft, China National Chemical Engineering, Sojitz and RusChemAlliance.

Linde was a German-founded company, and is now headquartered in Ireland and the UK. Linde is the world’s largest industrial gas producer by revenue and market share. Gazprom is Russia’s largest company, and the world’s largest publicly-listed natural gas company.

On March 29, Linde announced it was pulling out of projects with Gazprom:

In a statement placed on a corporate website, Linde said it is “working with the relevant governments and authorities to ensure the company fully complies with international sanctions and is safely winding down affected projects in Russia”.

In addition, Linde has “suspended all business development for new projects in Russia”.

These emails were provided to Distributed Denial of Secrets by Anonymous, and we have published torrents to ease with their wide release.

Please torrent and seed.

Disclaimer

This dataset was released in the buildup to, in the midst of, or in the aftermath of a cyberwar or hybrid war. Therefore, there is an increased chance of malware, ulterior motives and altered or implanted data, or false flags/fake personas. As a result, we encourage readers, researchers and journalists to take additional care with the data.

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