EU’s Gas Imports Mix: Gazprom Shipments Down by 73% y/y in 1H 2023

About 8% of EU natural gas imports came from Russia via pipelines (Does not include Russian LNG imports) (with 4 charts)

To assess the success of European efforts to shift away from Russian gas, the EOA issues a monthly tracker of the EU’s gas imports through pipelines from Russia, Azerbaijan, Norway, and North Africa (Algeria and Libya), as well as LNG cargoes from global players like the US, Qatar, and Nigeria. The tracker aims to highlight changes in the EU’s imported gas supplies and the extent of reducing dependency on Russia.

The EOA’s calculations for June 2023, which are based on data from the European gas transmission platform (Entsog), show that the Kremlin-controlled Gazprom shipped 1.94 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas to Europe (EU and Ukraine) via Ukraine and the TurkStream pipeline through Turkey, maintaining the same level recorded for May (Figure 1).

Gazprom shipped 1,223 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas via Ukraine through the Sudja gas station, of which 173 mcm was offloaded in Ukraine, while the remaining 1,050 mcm was shipped to EU member states, based on the EOA’s calculations. Gazprom’s daily gas exports through the Sudja gas station averaged 40.7 mcm in June, slightly up from 39.7 mcm in May.