Gazprom has stopped publishing operational data on gas production and exports, which in 2022 collapsed a record for the entire history of the gas industry of the Russian Federation. The Moscow Times writes about this, noting that previously such statistics were published twice a month..
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Gazprom last presented data on December 15. They showed that in the two weeks of the last month of 2022, gas production sank by 24% year-on-year, to 17.2 billion cubic meters, while exports fell by 60%, to 2.6 billion cubic meters.. Accumulated total for 11.5 months Gazprom lost 20% of production and 45% of exports.
According to the results of last year, Gazprom sold 101 billion cubic meters of gas to non-CIS countries, which is half as much as a year earlier, the head of the company, Alexei Miller, reported in January.
At the same time, deliveries to Turkey and European countries - once the largest customers of Gazprom - amounted to only 85 billion cubic meters and became the lowest in the modern history of Russia, according to BCS Global Markets.. For comparison: in 1991, Gazprom sold 110 billion cubic meters to Europe, and in the range between 70-110 billion cubic meters annually, exports were in 1985-1991, when the USSR empire was collapsing.
Next year, Gazprom's exports to Europe and Turkey may drop to 60 billion cubic meters, the International Energy Agency predicts.. This will be the lowest level since 1980-85.
By turning off gas to almost all European countries, Russian President Vladimir Putin in one year eliminated the largest sales market for Gazprom, which took more than 50 years to build..
Recall that after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU adopted a number of consistent decisions to replace Russian energy sources..
Ukraine and most EU countries now have a consolidated position: Russian gas must be removed from the European market. And if Ukraine has not been importing a single cubic meter of gas from Gazprom since November 25, 2015, then the EU countries have been actively moving towards this throughout 2022.
In October last year, Europe declared independence from Russian gas..
Russia itself largely put an end to its dominance by starting a "
Starting from January 2022, Gazprom stopped gas supplies to Poland through Ukraine.
The capacities of the Yamal-Europe gas pipeline have ceased to be attracted by Gazprom since the end of December 2021.
From the summer of 2022, Russia began to reduce the gas supply through the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline.
At the end of the summer, Russia announced the breakdown of the Nord Stream 1 turbines and reduced the flow of gas towards Europe.
In early September, explosions occurred on both lines of the Nord Stream, the transit of Russian gas was stopped.