Russian gas deliveries to the EU via TurkStream suspended for maintenance

Russian natural gas deliveries to Europe via the TurkStream pipeline have been suspended for scheduled maintenance. Reuters reported this today, citing data from the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Gas (ENTSOG). In addition to Turkey, the countries receiving gas via this route include Serbia, Hungary and Slovakia.

TurkStream is the only pipeline through which Russia’s Gazprom still supplies gas to the European Union. Gazprom was the EU’s main supplier in the past, but the bloc began gradually turning away from Russian oil and gas and, after Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, drew up a plan to completely end its imports of Russian gas and oil.

The scheduled maintenance began on 2 June and will last until 10 June. Work is under way at the Russkaya compressor station in the Russian Federation and at receiving terminals in Turkey, Bulgarian company Bulgartransgaz said on its website.

At the end of 2024, a five-year contract between Gazprom and Ukraine’s Naftogaz, which allowed Russian gas to be transited to the EU via Ukraine, expired. Kyiv halted transit from 1 January 2025, citing national security. Moscow partly finances its war against Ukraine through the sale of commodities. Russia is now focusing mainly on Asian countries for its oil and gas exports.

Gazprom is Russia’s largest gas company. The company announced in April that its net profit rose by seven percent last year to 1.3 trillion rubles (almost CZK 361 billion at the time). Its financial performance was supported by a stronger ruble, which had a positive effect on foreign-currency debt. However, operating profit and revenue fell.