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Russia’s Gazprom plans to reduce the volume of gas purchases from Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan by nearly 10 billion cubic meters and replace these volumes with its own gas in 2015.

Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the company made such an announcement while speaking at an investor day in Hong Kong, RIA- Novosti news agency reported on February 3.

"Gazprom, thanks to investments to the mining complex and the transport sector requires no purchase of gas from abroad, regardless the source. Gazprom has enough resources to meet the needs of the market of any region of the Russian Federation, as well as to ensure supplies of gas to our customers both in Europe and in the future, in Asia," Medvedev said.

He noted that Gazprom will decrease Turkmen gas purchases from 10 billion cubic meters to four billion cubic meters in 2015. Meanwhile Uzbek gas purchases for subsequent transit and distribution will decrease by over than 4 times to just one billion cubic meters.

"In total, almost 10 billion cubic meters including 6 billion cubic meters from Turkmenistan and 3.5 billion cubic meters from Uzbekistan will be replaced with Russian gas due to economic benefit. This will give additional revenue to the Gazprom," the deputy chairman of the company said.

Gazprom is the largest producer of natural gas in the world and the major Russian company.
Its major business lines are geological exploration, production, transportation, storage, processing and marketing of hydrocarbons, as well as generation and marketing of heat and electric power. The Russian government has a controlling stake in the company.

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