Naviny.by: Gazprom plans to increase volume of natural gas pumped via Belarus
Russia`s Gazprom plans to pump up to 60 billion cubic meters of natural gas via Belarus to customers elsewhere in Europe in 2013, which would be 25 percent more than projected for this year, says the draft agenda of the Russian gas monopoly’s forthcoming general meeting that was released on Saturday.
This past March, Uladzimir Mayoraw, director general of Belarusian-based gas pipeline company AAT Beltranshaz, which is now fully owned by Gazprom, said that Gazprom planned to pump 48 billion cubic meters of gas via Belarus this year, using Beltranshaz’s pipeline system and the Yamal-Europe pipeline. The pipelines, which have annual capacities of 30 billion and 33 billion cubic meters, respectively, carry gas to Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave, Lithuania, Ukraine and Poland.