Some 15.3 TWh of gas were supplied to Lithuania, up by almost 10% from 14 TWh a year ago, Amber Grid said. The figure does not include gas transportation through Lithuania to Russia's Kaliningrad region.
Despite a decrease in Lithuania's gas consumption in the first quarter due to the warm winter, the total figure for the first half is unchanged from the year-earlier level, at 12.6 TWh, Amber Grid said.
Consumption in Lithuania has been recently driven up by intensive electricity generation at Ignitis Gamyba's facilities, the operator said, attributing the higher-than-usual use of gas as a source of power generation to low gas prices and the favorable situation in the electricity market.
The Klaipeda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal accounted for 72% of the overall gas supplies to consumers in Lithuania and the other two Baltic countries. The remaining 28% came via pipelines from Belarus and Latvia.
Gas transportation from Belarus to Russia's Kaliningrad region via Lithuania fell by 8% in the first half of 2020 year-on-year to 12.4 TWh.
Gas is currently supplied to Lithuania through the Klaipeda LNG terminal and from Russia via Belarus and Latvia. The planned launch of Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) in 2022 will give Lithuania and the other Baltic countries another source of gas supply.