Russian MFA says LNG supplies to France grew in 2023

Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies to France in the nine months of 2023 increased by 41% year-on-year, the director of the first European department of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry Artem Studennikov said, Report informs via RBC.

“In January-September 2023, French purchases from Russia increased by 41 percent compared to the same period in 2022,” he said. Studennikov noted that at the end of 2022, Russia, thanks to LNG, became the second supplier of natural gas to France after the United States.

He clarified that the main point of receipt of Russian liquefied gas was the terminal in Montoir-de-Bretagne. In 2022, it received 1.68 billion cubic meters of LNG, and in the first half of 2023 - 0.89 billion cubic meters of LNG.

According to Kpler analysts, in the first month of 2024, the total volumes of LNG exports from Russia decreased by 8% compared to the level of December 2023 and amounted to 2.9 million tons versus 3.17 million tons a month earlier.