OREANDA-NEWS. November 19, 2009. The Gazprom Headquarters hosted today a working meeting between Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Klaus-Ewald Holst, Chairman of the Executive Board of Verbundnetz Gas AG.

The parties discussed the issues related to Russian natural gas supplies to Germany and Verbundnetz Gas AG activities.

“Since mid-2009 Gazprom has been observing a sustainable gas demand growth on the key markets. This November the amount of natural gas supplies to European consumers was considerably higher than in the same period of 2008. Thus, daily gas offtake exceeded last year's indicators by nearly 50 per cent (170 million cubic meters per day) on certain days. As of November 18, an increase in Gazprom’s gas sales in Europe versus last November averaged over 37 per cent. A sustainable growth is observed in Russia as well. Since early November Russian consumers have been supplied with additional 8 per cent if compared to the same period of the last year. Daily gas consumption was up to 20 per cent higher on certain days,” Alexey Miller noted at the meeting.