Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom broke its own record in gas supplies
to Europe on Friday, with 590 million cubic meters of gas per day, CEO Alexei
Miller told reporters on Saturday.
"This week, Gazprom is breaking one record after another in gas
supplies to foreign, non-CIS, countries and last Friday was not an
exception," Miller said. "On October 21, we registered a new
historical maximum level - the company supplied exactly 590 million cubic
meters of gas. The previous record of October 20 was surpassed by 2.2 million
cubic meters."
Gazprom has start registering historically highest levels of gas supplies
to Europe since October 18. Thus, Friday’s record has become the fourth.
Earlier reports said that Russia’s gas exports to non-CIS countries surged
by 9.6% from January 1 to October 15, 2016 and totaled 11.8 billion cubic
meters (bcm). In particular, natural gas supplies increased by 7% (by 2.4 bcm)
to Germany, 21.1% (by 1.5 bcm) to France, by 24.8% (by 0.8 bcm) to Austria, by
53.7% (by 0.7 bcm) to Greece, by 92.5% (1.6 bcm) to the Netherlands and by
148.6% (by 0.8 bcm) to Denmark.
(
ITAR-TASS)