Ukraine produces over 17 bcm of natural gas in 10 months

It is 0.4% down from the same period of 2018.

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Ukraine produced 17.2 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas in January-October 2019, which was 0.4% down year-over-year.

In particular, gas production by the largest Ukrainian gas producer, Ukrgasvydobuvannya, for the 10 months of 2019 decreased by 2.3%, to 12.46 bcm, the Ukrainian gas transmission system operator Ukrtransgaz said.

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The country's largest crude oil producer, Ukrnafta, produced 963.5 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas and other companies' output was 3.8 bcm in January-October 2019, it said.

As UNIAN reported, Ukrainian state-owned and private companies in 2018 boosted gas output by 0.4% from 2017, to 20.9 bcm. Ukrgasvydobuvannya alone increased gas production by 1.6%, to 15.5 bcm last year.

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