Uzbekistan is receiving gas from Russia "at the maximum technically possible amounts", said the CEO of Gazprom, Alexey Miller on Thursday.
The Russian energy company is expanding cooperation with the Central Asian countries, where energy consumption is growing. "These countries are developing very intensively in economic and social terms," he noted.
"And this opens up new opportunities for us. In January-August alone, over eight months, we doubled gas supplies to the region. And, for example, now the applications that we satisfy for gas supplies to Uzbekistan are going through the Central Asia-Center gas pipeline at the maximum technically possible level. At the winter level. At the level at which we supplied gas to Uzbekistan last winter, when abnormally severe cold weather set in there," Alexey Miller said.
Since October 7, 2023, Uzbekistan began importing gas from Russia via Kazakhstan to cover part of the gas shortage in the autumn-winter period. The gas purchase contract was entered into for two years, the declared volume of purchases is 9 million cubic meters per day, or about 2.8 billion cubic meters per year.
