Alexey Miller's column

Gazprom and Uniper highlight essential role of natural gas in achieving EU’s decarbonization policy goals

“The agreement that was signed in Essen half a century ago served as the starting point for long-term and large-scale cooperation between Russia and Germany in the gas sector.

Today, the German market is the number-one foreign market for Gazprom. Germany is the largest consumer of Russian gas. While 50 years ago we talked about supplying 52.5 billion cubic meters of gas over 20 years, we now supply as much or even more than that to Germany every year.

I am certain that we have many more decades of successful cooperation ahead of us.”

February 1, 1970, Essen (Germany), conference hall of Hotel Kaiserhof. Signing of first contract for natural gas supplies from Soviet Union to Federal Republic of Germany