BAKU, Azerbaijan, August 29. The volume of natural gas production in Kazakhstan in June 2022 amounted to 638.2 million cubic meters, which is 27.9 percent less than in the same month the previous year and 20.7 percent less than in May 2022, Trend reports via Kazakhstan Statistics Committee.
According to the committee, production of natural gas in Kazakhstan amounted to 5.2 billion cubic meters from January through July 2022, which is 9 percent less than in the same period last year.
Kazakhstan imported 425.5 million cubic meters of natural gas in June 2022, which was 17.4 percent more than in the same period the previous year and 11.8 percent more than in May 2022.
Kazakhstan's import of natural gas amounted to 3.8 billion cubic meters from January through June 2022, which is 26 percent less than in the same period in 2021.
Kazakhstan exported 1.02 billion cubic meters of natural gas in June 2022, which is 21.3 percent less than in the same period the previous year and 10.6 percent less than in May 2022.
Kazakhstan's natural gas exports amounted to 7.1 billion cubic meters, which is 20.6 percent less than the same period last year.
The natural gas sale on the domestic market of Kazakhstan amounted to 35.1 million cubic meters in June 2022.
The natural gas sale on the domestic market from January through June 2022 amounted to 2.01 billion cubic meters, which is 1.2 percent less than in the same period the previous year.