MOSCOW, December 28. /TASS/. Gazprom plans to begin gas supplies via the Far Eastern route to China no later than 2027, head of the holding, Alexey Miller, said at a meeting on the preliminary results of the year.
"We have already begun implementing a project to build a Far Eastern gas supply route to China - from the Russian Far East, and gas supplies will begin no later than 2027," Miller said.
At the end of 2022, Russia exported 15.5 billion cubic meters of gas via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline to China. Russian gas supplies to China via the Power of Siberia in 2023 will amount to more than 22.5 billion cubic meters. It is expected that the gas pipeline will reach its design capacity of 38 billion cubic meters in 2025. Moreover, in the coming years, the total volume of Gazprom exports to China will reach 48 billion cubic meters of gas per year (thanks to the implementation of the supply project along the Far Eastern route), and taking into account the transit gas pipeline through Mongolia - almost 100 billion cubic meters of gas per year, Miller noted earlier.
However, later he said that China is considering the possibility of increasing Russian gas supplies through the Power of Siberia beyond the design capacity of 38 billion cubic meters of gas and such an agreement can be reached in the near future.