Ok... just did it!
Numbers of note:
Russian Federation Gas Output (this includes other companies than GAZPROM or GAZPROMneft or Lukoil or Rosneft)
1985 — 425 billion cubic meters
1995 — 552 billion cubic meters
2005 — 590 billion cubic meters
2015 — 584 billion cubic meters — note 611 GFC peak 2008
2019 — 679 billion cubic meters — max pre Covid
2021 — 702 billion cubic meters — post Covid
2022 — 618 billion cubic meters delta -12%
Netherlands 2021-2022 delta -15%
Nigeria also minus more than 10%
The answer seems to be in consumption:
Total world consumption -3.2% 2021-2022
This can happen most powerfully from a warm winter
Euro consumption 2021-2022 -13%, compilation of all EU and UK
Everything doesn’t have to be political.
And best to remember when we’re talking about joules . . . things that actually matter . . . if you didn’t bring it out of the ground to burn somewhere, it’s still in the ground.