taly trumps Turkey as Russia’s second biggest gas buyer

摘要

London-Italy is now the second biggest buyer of Russian gas in Europe after overtaking Turkey, the head of Russian gas giant Gazprom said Wednesday. CEO Alexei Miller said Italian demand for Russian gas continued to rise and was up 5.3% so far in 2016 compared with the same period of last year. But although volumes to Italy so far this year are up on 2015, the growth has slowed in the second quarter compared with the first. In addition, Turkish purchases are considerably down this year compared with 2015.