Natural gas stocks in Ukraine's underground storage facilities (USFs) have shrunk by 20.7%, to 17.24 billion cubic meters (bcm) since November 2, when Ukraine started pumping out gas from its reserves amid the heating season.
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As of January 25, 2020, gas reserves in the country's USFs stood at 17.24 bcm, which was 49.1% up from 11.56 bcm as of January 25, 2019, the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine on November 2 stopped injecting gas into the underground storage facilities and began pumping it out for the 2019-2020 heating season.
By the start of the heating season, Ukraine had accumulated 21.76 bcm of gas in its underground storage facilities against 17.2 bcm year-on-year.
