From January through August Gazprom increased gas exports outside the former Soviet Union by 19.4%

St.Petersburg, September 2 - Neftegaz.RU. Gazprom announced that the company produced 337.2 billion m³ of gas in January–August 2021, which is 17.9% (or 51.2 billion m³) more than in the same period of 2020.
Gazprom ramped up its domestic supplies from the gas transmission system by 10.9% (or by 15.6 billion m³) over said period of 2021.

The company increased its gas exports to the countries beyond the FSU to 131.3 billion m³.
Thus, Gazprom is maintaining the amounts of its gas supplies near the all-time high level (133.3 billion m³ for the same period of 2018).
This is higher than the figure for the same period of 2020 by 19.4 % (or by 21.3 billion m³).

Specifically, in the period from January through August 2021, Gazprom increased gas supplies:

• to Turkey (+173.6 %)
• Germany (+39.3 %)
• Italy (+15 %)
• Romania (+344 %)
• Serbia (+123.9 p%)
• Poland (+12 %)
• Bulgaria (+50.9 %)
• Greece (+15.8 %)
• Finland (+22.7 %)

Gas supplies to China via the Power of Siberia pipeline continue growing as well.
For instance, on August 26, daily supplies topped the absolute record for the 4^th time this year, exceeding the daily contractual obligations by more than 5%.

According to Gas Infrastructure Europe, the level of reserves in European UGS facilities remained the lowest in many years as of August 30, 2021.
Last year, the withdrawal season at Europe’s UGS facilities started on October 12.
This means that 25 % (or 17 billion m³) out of the 66.2 billion m³ of gas that had been withdrawn in the last season will remain unreplenished.

At the current rates of injection, Ukraine’s UGS facilities are expected to contain 30 % (or 8 billion m³) less gas by October 12 versus last year.