Russian gas exports to non-CIS countries down 45% in 2022

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 03 Jan 2023 by Alex Teddy
On January 3 Gazprom released the data. Gas exports outside the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was 101 billion cubic meters in 2022. It was 185 bcm in 2021. The CIS is an organization that is open to ex-USSR countries, and most of them have chosen to join. The EU was the principal Gazprom export market until 2022. The head Gazprom Alexei Miller noted that the company has increased sales to China. But he added that 2022 had been a ''very, very difficult year.'' Gazprom has the largest gas reserves in the world. It is responsible for 11% of global production. In December 2022 Putin opened the Kovytka natural gas field in the Russian Far East. Its gas will mostly go to China. The Power of Siberia Pipeline takes gas to China. A second such pipeline is planned. Russia does not have pipelines from West Siberia and the Arctic to China.

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