6 – Income from companies accounted for using the equity method

The largest portion of income from companies accounted for using the equity method stemmed from the Oil & Gas segment, especially from the companies GASCADE Gastransport GmbH, based in Kassel, Germany; Nord Stream AG, based in Zug, Switzerland; and OAO Severneftegazprom, based in Krasnoselkup, Russian Federation.

BASF’s share in BASF-YPC Company Ltd. based in Nanjing, China, contributed significantly to earnings improvement in both the third quarter of 2015 and from January to September 2015 compared with the same periods of the previous year.