Russia’s export of gas abroad decreased by 45.5 percent
The volume of gas exported by Russia to other countries outside the CIS decreased by 45.5 percent in 2022.
This on January 2 of Russia gas giant Gazprom declared.
The company’s statement says that excluding Russia’s CIS gas export in 2022 to 185.1 in 2021 billion from the cubic meter 100.9 billion per cubic meter.
Europe Before that, the main of Russia gas market, but since 2022, when it launched baseless and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, Western Moscow like imposed unprecedented sanctions.
Executive director of the company Alexey Miller said that Gazprom has consistently increased gas exports to China. But Miller did not give exact numbers.
He simply said that “since January 1, we have reached a fundamentally new level of gas supply to China.”
President Vladimir Putin opened the Kovitka natural gas field in Eastern Siberia last month.
Experts say that this will give Russia the opportunity to further increase gas exports to China.
Miller’s confession
Russia has no way to transport gas from Western Siberia and the Arctic to China via pipelines.
Belts drawn from these areas are exceptional Europe was going to the market.
However Russia a decade ago, it developed new fields and launched the Power of Siberia pipeline project.
The Power of Siberia gas pipeline was put into operation in 2019 and connected to the rapidly expanding Chinese market.
Currently, Moscow is planning the construction of the Power of Siberia-2 pipeline.
Miller admitted at a conference last week that 2022 was a “pretty difficult” year for Gazprom.
Miller also emphasized that the war in Ukraine and Western sanctions caused a “total change in the energy markets”.
Gazprom accounts for 11 percent of global gas production and owns the world’s largest gas fields.