Tuesday, September 1 2026 17:52
Alina Hovhannisyan

Russia and Iran are the main importers of natural gas to Armenia.

Russia and Iran are the main importers of natural gas to Armenia.

ArmInfo. In 2025, Armenia slightly reduced its natural gas imports by 0.8% (versus a 0.1% increase the year before) to 2,706,771.9 cubic meters, with a 0.5% decrease in customs value to $470 million. According to data from the RA Customs Service, Russia and Iran were Armenia's main import markets during the reporting year.

In particular, traditionally, the lion's share - 82.4% (versus 83.8% in 2024) or 2,229,697.4 cubic meters of natural gas were supplied to Armenia from Russia, with an annual decline of 2.6%. The customs value decreased by 2.2% to $389 million.

The remaining volume—477,074.5 cubic meters—was supplied from Iran, with an 8.5% year-on-year increase. At the same time, the customs value increased by 8.6% to $80.8 million.

 

According to the source, liquefied gas supplies increased by 29.7% during the reporting year (versus a 53.6% increase in 2024), reaching 284.1 thousand tons, with a customs value increase of 26.8% to $107.1 million.

As with natural gas, the bulk of liquefied gas imports came from Russia - 94.6% (versus 96% in 2024), or 268.8 thousand tons, with an annual increase of 28%, with a customs value increase of 23.4% to $99.6 million.

Armenia also imported liquefied gas from Iran - 3.7% or 10.5 thousand tons, a 36.7% year-on-year increase, with a 60.7% increase in customs value to $5.2 million.

Iraqi liquefied gas accounted for 1.3%, or 3.6 thousand tons, significantly exceeding the 2024 volume by 3.1 times, with a significant 4.5-fold increase in customs value to $1.8 million.

Armenia also imported liquefied gas from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, China, Turkey, Germany, and the Republic of Korea.