Gazprom has confirmed that Europe has ceased to be the main consumer of Russian gas

In 2025, China became the main consumer of Russian pipeline gas. This was confirmed by Gazprom.

"In 2025, for the first time, Gazprom supplied more gas to China than to Europe," the Russian company reports.

According to preliminary data, Gazprom supplied 38.8 billion cubic meters to China via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline, exceeding the previous year's figures by 24.8%.

"Thus, the company exported more pipeline gas to China than in total to the countries of the European far abroad (including Turkey)," Gazprom said.

On the one hand, the Russian company has been increasing gas supplies to China this year under a contract with Chinese CNPC. On the other hand, the stop of Ukrainian transit affected.

If in 2024 deliveries to Europe excluding Turkey amounted to about 32 billion cubic meters, then in 2025, when the European line of the Turkish Stream remained the only route, it was 17.8 billion cubic meters. This is evidenced by the data of the platform of the GTS operators of the EU ENTSOG countries.

During 2027 The EU plans to completely abandon Russian gas and Gazprom is looking for ways to redirect the lost volumes. Without the Power of Siberia — 2, there are not so many of them to China yet.

Among them are Central Asia and China.

Gazprom continues to reliably supply gas to neighboring countries. In 2025, exports to Central Asia and Transcaucasia increased. In particular, the company increased Russian gas supplies to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan by 22.2%, Georgia by 40.4%," Gazprom said.