MOSCOW, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Natural gas exports of
Kremlin-controlled energy giant Gazprom to Europe
increased by 16% in February from January, mostly due to the
cranking up of supplies to Turkey, Reuters calculations showed
on Tuesday.
The calculations, based on data from European gas
transmission group Entsog and Gazprom's daily reports on its
transit via Ukraine, daily pipeline exports of Russian gas to
Europe have risen to 67.5 million cubic metres (mcm) this month
from 58.1 mcm in January.
That's still below 81.9 mcm per day in December.
In total, Russian pipeline gas supplies to Europe in
February have increased to 1.89 billion cubic metres from 1.8
bcm in January, which is three days longer.
Gazprom, which has stopped publishing its own exporting
statistics, has not replied to a request for comment.
According to Reuters calculations, supplies via TurkStream
on the bed of the Black Sea, have increased to 916 mcm this
month from 825 mcm in January.
In all, last year's European imports of Russian pipeline gas
were 62 billion bcm, 60% below the average of the previous five
years, European Commission data showed.
(Reporting by Oksana Kobzeva; writing by Vladimir Soldatkin;
Editing by sharon Singleton)
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