{"id":10769,"date":"2024-05-17T09:42:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/?p=10769"},"modified":"2024-05-17T09:42:03","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T09:42:03","slug":"gazprom-ceo-visits-iran-on-energy-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roydadnaft.ir\/English\/10769\/","title":{"rendered":"Gazprom CEO visits Iran on energy talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

RoydadNaft – <\/a><\/span>\u00a0Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller is on a working visit to Iran, his company said in a statement on Wednesday, just as President Vladimir Putin prepares to fly to China with a high-level delegation for talks with Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n

Iran\u2019s First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber met Miller, who also met Iranian Oil Minister Javad Owji, Gazprom said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA Gazprom delegation headed by Chairman of the Management Board Alexei Miller, is on a working visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

The apparent absence of Miller, a close Putin ally who has run Gazprom since 2001, from the China trip was not explained by Gazprom.<\/p>\n

Gazprom, the world\u2019s largest natural gas company has been badly hit by the loss of much of the European gas market. It plunged to a net loss of 629 billion roubles ($6.9 billion) in 2023, its first annual loss in more than 20 years, amid dwindling gas trade with Europe, once its main sales market.<\/p>\n

Russia has been in talks for years about building the Power of Siberia-2 pipeline to carry 50 billion cubic metres of natural gas a year from the Yamal region in northern Russia to China via Mongolia.<\/p>\n

Its capacity would be almost as much as the now idle Nord Stream 1 pipeline under the Baltic Sea that was damaged by explosions in 2022.<\/p>\n

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