Russian energy giant Gazprom’s GAZP pipeline gas exports to Europe collapsed by 44% in January-April from a year earlier period after closure of the transit via Ukraine on January 1, Reuters calculations showed on Monday.

The Russian pipeline gas exports to the region declined to 5.7 billion cubic metres (bcm) in the first four months of the year from 10.2 bcm in the same period in 2024, calculations showed.

Turkey is now the only transit route left for Russian pipeline gas to Europe after Ukraine chose not to extend a five-year transit deal with Moscow when it expired on January 1.

Calculations based on data from European gas transmission group Entsog also showed that Russian gas exports via the TurkStream pipeline fell to 41.7 million cubic metres (mcm) per day last month from 45 mcm per day in March.

That was roughly on par with 41.2 mcm in April 2024.

Gazprom, which has not published its own monthly statistics on total gas exports to Europe since the start of 2023, did not respond to a request for comment.

Russia supplied about 63.8 bcm of gas to Europe by various routes in 2022, Gazprom data and Reuters calculations show. That plummeted by 55.6% to 28.3 bcm in 2023, but increased to around 32 bcm in 2024.

At their peak in 2018-2019, annual Russian pipeline gas flows to Europe reached between 175 bcm and 180 bcm.
Source: Reuters