Ï Gazprom increases gas purchases in Turkmenistan and cuts them in other Central Asian countries
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Gazprom increases gas purchases in Turkmenistan and cuts them in other Central Asian countries

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According to Interfax with reference to the report and the Memorandum on the issue of Eurobonds of the Russian concern, Gazprom increases gas purchases in Turkmenistan, reducing them in Kazakhstan and stopped purchasing ‘blue fuel’ in Uzbekistan.

The supplies of Turkmen gas to the Russian company resumed after a long interval in 2019 from 4 billion cubic meters, in 2020 the volume increased to 4.7 billion cubic meters. According to the Memorandum, in the first quarter of 2021, gas purchases in Turkmenistan increased to 2.2 billion cubic meters from 1.3 billion cubic meters a year earlier.

At the same time, Gazprom's purchases of gas in Kazakhstan are reduced - from 12.6 billion cubic meters in 2018 to 11.6 billion cubic meters in 2019 and 5.7 billion cubic meters in 2020. For the first quarter of 2021, supplies fell to 0.6 billion cubic meters (from 2.2 billion cubic meters in the same period in 2020), according to the Memorandum.

As for Uzbekistan, it has turned from a seller to a buyer of Gazprom's gas. Thus, Uzbekistan supplied Gazprom with 3.8 billion cubic meters of gas in 2018, in 2019 increased supplies to 4.9 billion cubic meters, and stopped them in 2020. Moreover, according to the Memorandum, in 2020, Gazprom started supplying Turkmen gas to Uzbekistan: 0.9 billion cubic meters of gas were supplied in 2020, and for the first quarter of 2021 - already 1.5 billion cubic meters of gas were supplied to Uzbekistan.

According to experts, this is due to the growth of domestic consumption of natural gas in Uzbekistan.

"The Central Asian states develops very rapidly. First of all, this concerns Uzbekistan. We observe a large increase in gas consumption in this country. Therefore, of course, gas purchases are reduced to one degree or another, because the state directs gas for its own needs, if we are talking about Uzbekistan," Elena Burmistrova, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Director General of Gazprom Export commented on the situation with Uzbek gas in May.