Saudi Arabia, Russia, Kazakhstan Stress Importance of Maintaining Balance in Oil Markets

Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud attends a closing plenary meeting the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku Azerbaijan November 24, 2024. (Reuters)
Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud attends a closing plenary meeting the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku Azerbaijan November 24, 2024. (Reuters)
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Saudi Arabia, Russia, Kazakhstan Stress Importance of Maintaining Balance in Oil Markets

Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud attends a closing plenary meeting the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku Azerbaijan November 24, 2024. (Reuters)
Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud attends a closing plenary meeting the COP29 United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Baku Azerbaijan November 24, 2024. (Reuters)

Saudi Arabia, Russia and Kazakhstan stressed on Wednesday the importance of maintaining stability and balance in global oil markets, highlighting the significant role played by the OPEC+ Group in this regard.

Saudi Minister of Energy Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud took part, by phone, in a meeting with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak and Kazakhstan’s Minister of Energy Almasadam Satkaliyev in Astana.

They underlined the importance of cooperation among OPEC+ member countries and full adherence to the agreement, including the voluntary production cuts agreed upon by the eight participating countries, as well as compensating for any excess production.

The Kazakh minister reiterated his country’s full commitment to the agreement, the voluntary production cuts, and compensating for any overproduction, in accordance with the updated schedule submitted to the OPEC Secretariat.



Russia’s Pipeline Gas Exports to Europe up 13% in 2024, Calculations Show

Gazprom logo and stock graph are seen through a magnifier displayed in this illustration taken September 4, 2022. (Reuters)
Gazprom logo and stock graph are seen through a magnifier displayed in this illustration taken September 4, 2022. (Reuters)
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Russia’s Pipeline Gas Exports to Europe up 13% in 2024, Calculations Show

Gazprom logo and stock graph are seen through a magnifier displayed in this illustration taken September 4, 2022. (Reuters)
Gazprom logo and stock graph are seen through a magnifier displayed in this illustration taken September 4, 2022. (Reuters)

Pipeline gas exports by Russian energy giant Gazprom to Europe increased by 13% in 2024 to around 32 billion cubic meters (bcm), Reuters calculations showed on Saturday, slightly more than the 31 bcm supplied to China.

Gazprom's average daily pipeline exports have been stable this December, at 91.3 million cubic meters (mcm), in comparison with November, but rose by 7% from December 2023, calculations based on data from European gas transmission group Entsog and Gazprom's daily reports on gas transit via Ukraine showed.

Its total supply to the European Union stood at about 2.8 bcm in December, the preliminary data showed, including 1.5 bcm, or 49.2 mcm per day, sent via Turkey.

Gas transit via Ukraine has reached around 1.3 bcm this month, or 42.1 mcm per day, almost unchanged from November despite Russia halting gas exports to Austria's OMV in mid-November over a contractual dispute.

Gazprom's exports to Europe via Ukraine this year have reached about 15 bcm.

The transit agreement between Moscow and Kyiv expires in the end of the year and is unlikely to continue as Ukraine has repeatedly said it was unwilling to do so amid the military conflict.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday there was no time left this year to sign a new Ukrainian gas transit deal, and laid the blame firmly on Ukraine for refusing to extend the agreement that brings gas to Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria.

Gazprom, which has not published its own monthly statistics since the start of 2023, did not respond to a request for comment.

Russia supplied about 63.8 bcm of gas to Europe by various routes in 2022, Gazprom data and Reuters calculations show. That fell by 55.6% to 28.3 bcm last year.

At their peak in 2018-2019, annual flows to Europe reached between 175 bcm and 180 bcm.