Jack Prandelli.
Translated from English.
The flow of Russian gas to Turkey just jumped almost 4 times.
In the first five days of November, Gazprom says deliveries to Turkish customers were almost four times higher than in the same days in October and September.
October is already up 78% compared to September.
Gazprom ties it to Europe.
He says Europe removed record amounts of gas from stocks on October 28th and 29th, and again on November 1st, 2nd and 4th.
Winter has come early for European stocks.
Turkey is stockpiling Russian gas via pipeline before LNG cargoes are delivered by Europe and Asia.
Gazprom is happy to sell every molecule it can.
And Turkey wants to be the gas center between Russia, the Caspian Sea and Europe.
Every cold week in Europe makes this center more useful.