The amount of gas supplied to Europe by Russia's Gazprom group daily through the TurkStream pipeline increased by 10.3% in January 2026 compared to the same period last year.
Currently, the pipeline through Turkey is the only gas pipeline transshipping Russian gas to Europe after Ukraine decided not to extend the 5-year transit agreement with Russia, which expired in January 2025.
According to Reuters calculations, the total amount of Russian gas supplied to Europe through the TurkStream gas pipeline in January reached 1.73 billion m3, an increase compared to 1.57 billion m3 in the same period last year.
Data from the European gas transmission system operator group (Entsog) shows that Russian gas exports through TurkStream reached an average of 55.8 million m3/day in January 2026, up from 50.6 million m3/day in January 2025. This figure is equivalent to December, when exports reached about 56 million m3/day.
Gazprom has stopped publishing monthly statistics since the beginning of 2023. In 2025, Gazprom's gas exports to Europe decreased by 44%, to the lowest level since the mid-1970s, after the transit route through Ukraine was closed. The total amount of Russian gas supplied to Europe last year was only about 18 billion m3.
Previously, Russia's pipeline gas exports to Europe peaked at over 175-180 billion m3 per year in the 2018-2019 period.
Meanwhile, gas consumption in Russia set a record in the middle of the severe cold spell in January 2026
Gazprom said that Russia's domestic gas consumption increased to a historic high in January 2026.
“Gazprom recorded the highest gas supply from Russia's United Gas Supply System (UGSS) in January ever. Preliminary data shows that Russian consumers have used 51.275 billion m3 of gas," Gazprom's statement stated.
In 14 days from January 15 to January 28, the amount of gas supplied reached the highest level ever recorded in the same period. The previous record was 50.971 billion m3, set in January 2024.
Gazprom experts believe that the group's gas transportation system is still operating stably, partly thanks to underground gas storage facilities.
Gazprom said it has built operating gas reserves of up to 73.17 billion m3 in storage facilities in Russia for the 2025-2026 winter, a record high in the history of the Russian gas industry.
According to Gazprom, air temperature, especially in winter, is the main factor determining gas consumption and production demand.
The unusually warm 2024-2025 winter has significantly affected production in the remainder of 2025, due to lower demand for additional gas pumping into storage in the summer.
The Unified Gas Supply System (UGSS) is a network of gas pipelines owned by Gazprom, covering Russia's European part and the Siberian region, extending to Altai and Kuzbass. Gas is supplied to further eastern regions through independent transportation systems, and these systems are expected to be connected to UGSS in the future.
