MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. Gazprom has resumed gas supplies via the Power of Siberia pipeline after completion of scheduled maintenance works, the holding said in a statement.

"Scheduled maintenance works on the Power of Siberia gas pipeline have been completed. Transportation of gas was resumed today as planned," the statement reads.

Maintenance works were held from March 24 to April 1. Maintenance of equipment and systems of the Power of Siberia gas pipeline is carried out twice a year, in spring and autumn, in accordance with the gas purchase and sale agreement between Gazprom and the Chinese company CNPC.

In 2023, Gazprom boosted gas supplies to China via Power of Siberia 1.5-fold to 22.7 bln cubic meters, which is 700 mln cubic meters higher than contractual commitments.

Power of Siberia is the largest gas transportation system in eastern Russia. Its export capacity of 38 bln cubic meters of gas per year is expected to be reached in 2025. Moreover, in the coming years, the total volume of Gazprom exports to China is expected to reach 48 bln cubic meters of gas per year (due to the implementation of a project for gas supplies to China via the Far Eastern route), and taking into account the transit gas pipeline through Mongolia - almost 100 bln cubic meters per year, Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller said earlier.

Miller later said that China was considering the possibility of increasing Russian gas supplies through the Power of Siberia beyond the design capacity of 38 bln cubic meters and that such an agreement could be reached in the near future.