MOSCOW, Oct. 22Gazprom regularly supplies additional volumes of gas to China; daily requests for the Power of Siberia exceed those specified in the contract, the head of the company Alexey Miller recalled in the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program on Russia 1.
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"Daily orders are higher than the volumes that are specified in our contract. And we regularly supply additional volumes to the Chinese market. Moreover, we have been doing this for several years now. This year, I think it will be 600 million cubic meters of gas,” Miller said in an interview with Pavel Zarubin.
«Power of Siberia» is a gas pipeline from Russia to China with a length of about 3 thousand kilometers. The first deliveries through it began at the end of 2019 from the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia, and three years later gas began to be transported from the Kovyktinskoye field in the Irkutsk region.
Last year, 15.4 billion cubic meters were pumped through the Power of Siberia; by the end of this year, the figure is expected to be 22 billion, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak previously reported. And the Power of Siberia’s full capacity – 38 billion cubic meters per year – is expected to reach its full capacity in 2025–2027.
Gazprom and the Chinese CNPC at a meeting in China in mid-October discussed bilateral strategic cooperation and signed an additional agreement to the gas purchase and sale agreement along the eastern route — Power of Siberia — for an additional volume of supplies Russian gas to China by the end of the year. The volume of supplies was not specified.