Gazprom increased gas supplies to Uzbekistan by 15 percent in 2025

According to the holding company's annual report cited by TASS, gas deliveries to Uzbekistan reached 6.48 billion cubic meters over the course of 2025, rising from 5.64 billion cubic meters recorded at the end of 2024. Gazprom noted that the reverse-flow shipments, routed to Uzbekistan through Kazakh territory via the Central Asia–Center pipeline system, grew steadily throughout the year. By the fourth quarter of 2025, deliveries to the country were operating at maximum technical capacity.

The growth aligns with Gazprom's broader regional strategy, which previously aimed for a combined 22.2 percent increase in gas shipments to Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan in 2025, alongside a 40.4 percent jump in exports to Georgia. In June 2024, the Russian gas monopoly signed export contracts with Kyrgyzstan while simultaneously securing a long-term transit agreement with Kazakhstan. This transit framework, which governs the flow of Russian gas through Kazakh pipelines to both Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, covers the period spanning 2025–2040.

Uzbekistan first entered into a commercial gas purchase contract with Gazprom in June 2023, with physical deliveries commencing in October of that year. Following up on the cooperation, the Russian government issued a statement on October 16, 2025, confirming the continuation of a supply agreement designed to deliver up to 7.7 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Uzbekistan annually.

To accommodate these expanding volumes, the Uzbek government announced plans in February 2024 to systematically modernize the national gas pipeline infrastructure. The long-term objective of the upgrade is to boost imports of Russian gas by up to 3.5 times, allowing daily intake capacity to scale up from 9 million cubic meters to 32 million cubic meters.