Gas reserves in Ukraine down 6.7% over week

Natural gas reserves of natural gas in Ukrainian underground storage facilities (USFs) from March 17 to 24 decreased by 6.7%, or by 577 million cubic meters, down to 8.035 billion cubic meters from 8.612 bcm.

According to the operator of Ukraine's gas transmission system, the state-owned Ukrtransgaz, on March 24, 75.87 million cubic meters of gas was pumped from the storage facilities.

Read alsoNaftogaz to raise gas prices for industry from April 1As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine entered the year of 2018 with the largest volumes of gas in its USFs over the past five years, with 14.7 bcm of gas in stock.

October 26, 2017, Ukraine stopped pumping gas into its USFs and began its selection for the needs of the heating season.

By the beginning of the heating season 2017-2018 (October 15, 2017), 16.8 bcm of gas had been accumulated.