This year Gazprom intends to buy 10 billion cubic meters of gas in Turkmenistan, the deputy head of Gazprom Valery Golubev said on April 28, reports Trend.
Contracts currently in force between Gazprom and Turkmenistan presuppose gas supplies amounting to 30 billion cubic meters of gas per year. Earlier, before the breakdown in the Turkmen section of the CAC-4 pipeline in April 2009, Gazprom bought about 50 billion cubic meters of Turkmen gas per year. According to unofficial information, the average price of Turkmen gas for Gazprom will make up 240-250
dollars per thousand cubic meters.
In addition, Golubev does not rule out the possibility of increasing gas purchases in Azerbaijan. However, this depends on the rate ofdevelopment of the "Shahdeniz" oil field in Azerbajan.
In 2009, Gazprom and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan signed an agreement concerning supplies of Azerbaijani gas via the Baku-Novo-Philya pipeline from January 1, 2010 at the European price for provision from the North Caucasus. In January 2010 the companies arranged that this year Gazprom will buy twice as much Azerbaijani gas
as had been intended originally - a billion cubic meters - and double the gas purchases amounting to 2 billion cubic meters in 2011.
Previously, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev had said that Azerbaijan would sell more gas to Gazprom if the Nabucco project implementation was postponed.
