The TASS news agency, also citing Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, said the company had increased gas deliveries to non-CIS countries by 8 bcm in the past nine and a half months.

Gazprom said in a follow-up statement that its gas exports to non-CIS countries had risen 5.2 percent year on year to 156.5 bcm in the past nine and a half months.

Output stood at 385.6 bcm as of Oct. 15, it said.

(Reporting by Polina Ivanova; writing by Andrew Osborn and Tom Balmforth; editing by Jason Neely)