The region’s governor, Oleg Melnichenko, reported a pipe rupture with fire on a section belonging to Gazprom Transgaz Saratov, Kursiv Uzbekistan wrote at 17:32 Tashkent time, with no casualties reported and the damaged section shut. Grass caught fire beside the line. No cause was named.
Astana’s ministry said that Russian gas supplies to Kazakhstan continue in the normal regime, that transit through Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan is also going to plan, and that no deviations in the operation of Kazakhstan’s gas transport system have been recorded.
Grass caught fire beside the line.
“The incident has no effect on gas supply to consumers in Kazakhstan,” the ministry said in the statement Tengrinews carried at 18:51 Astana time, adding that no requests from Gazprom to change the supply regime had come through the dispatch channels.
Tashkent had not spoken by the small hours. Spot asked Uzbekistan’s energy ministry whether imports of Russian gas had stopped and had no answer when it published at 01:22 on 14 October.
The Central Asia-Centre system runs through Russia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, and since 2023 part of its capacity has worked in reverse, carrying Russian gas through Kazakhstan to Uzbek consumers. The International Energy Agency’s July forecast put Russia’s deliveries to Uzbekistan through the system at more than 10 billion cubic metres in 2026. In September Gazprom reported that its supplies to Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan had grown by about 70% since the start of the year.
In August 2025 the Uzbek energy ministry denied reports of damage to the same line, Kursiv recalled.