Gazprom again reduced the gas production plan for the current year

Gazprom again reduced the production plan for 2015, this time - up to 450 billion cubic meters. Initially, it was planned to obtain at least 485 billion gas cubeles this year, a new plan was voiced last week - 471 billion cubic meters. Last year, the concern got 444 billion cubic meters of gas.

As Interfax reports, a member of Gazprom’s board of Vsevolod Cherepanov told reporters that according to the results of the first quarter, the annual production plan was adjusted by 16 billion cubic meters; The adjustment of the II quarter is 15-14 billion. At the same time, he said that the production of this year will be "at the level of the past", and in 2014 it was even lower.

Commenting on the disappearance of Gazprom data from the statistics of GAZ production of the Central Department Store, published on May 2, Cherepanov assured: "We provide all the necessary data." He said that in April, Gazprom got 33.6 billion cubic meters of gas under a plan of 35.6 billion cubic meters. “We hope for a cold winter in Europe,” he concluded.

According to Vitaly Markelov, deputy chairman of Gazprom, the company's peak production capabilities will reduce in 2015 to 1.5 billion cubic meters per day from 1.648 billion cubic meters a day in 2014. First of all, this is due to the reduction of production capacities in the Nadym-Purz-Tazovsky region.

The export of Gazprom gas to the far abroad in April for the first time since the beginning of the year increased by 5.4% in annual terms to 13.5 billion cubic meters. In general, the supply of Russian gas to the far abroad was reduced in January-April by 13.6% to 48.1 billion cubic meters against 55.67 billion cubic meters in January-April 2014.