Gazprom increased gas production by 3.4% in H1to 216.55bcm, Interfax reports

The rebound from depressed levels is the recurring pattern in this series: output has historically tracked export destination capacity, with Power of Siberia flows to China absorbing part of what westbound pipeline routes no longer take, so the split between domestic, CIS, and far-eastern offtake matters more than the headline total. A year-on-year rise of this size signals recovery from a low base rather than a return to prior peaks, and the market relevance runs through European hub pricing only insofar as it changes assumptions about Russian piped availability, which remains structurally impaired. Liquefied supply and Norwegian flows have been the marginal price-setters in Europe in recent episodes, which caps the transmission from a Gazprom volume print. Worth noting is that these figures arrive via state-adjacent reporting and Gazprom's own disclosure cadence has thinned, so the series carries more opacity than pre-curtailment years. The follow-ons are the export breakdown, any commentary on Chinese and Turkish volumes, and storage and flow data on the remaining transit routes.