Russia’s natural gas exports via the TurkStream pipeline to Europe have reached a record high of more than 50 million cubic metres (mcm) per day this month after transit through Ukraine was shut, Reuters preliminary calculations showed on Friday.
Turkey has remained the only route for Russian gas to Europe after a five-year transit deal between Moscow and Kyiv was not extended when it expired on Jan. 1.
Calculations based on data from European gas transmission group Entsog showed that Russian gas exports via the TurkStream have jumped this month by 26.8% year on year, rising to 50.6 mcm per day from 39.9 mcm in January 2024.
In total, Russian gas supplies to Europe via TurkStream have reached about 1.57 billion cubic metres (bcm) in January, up from 1.24 bcm in January last year and 1.54 bcm last December.
Russia supplied about 63.8 bcm of gas to Europe by various routes in 2022, Gazprom data and Reuters calculations show. That collapsed by 55.6% to 28.3 bcm in 2023 but increased to about 32 bcm in 2024.
At their peak in 2018-2019, annual flows to Europe reached between 175 bcm and 180 bcm.
Source: Reuters