REUTERS
Underground storage facilities were filled by 61% as of December 31.
Natural gas stocks in Ukraine's underground storage facilities (USFs) have shrunk by 13%, to 18.93 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 December 31, 2019, gas reserves in the country's USFs stood at 18.93 bcm, which was 36% up from 13.89 bcm as of December 31, 2018, the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz said.
In particular, 47.4 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas was withdrawn from the storage facilities on December 31 alone.
The country's USFs were filled by 61% as of December 31.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine on November 2 stopped injecting gas into the underground storage facilities and began pumping it out for 2019-2020 heating season.
By the start of the 2019-2020 heating season, Ukraine had accumulated 21.76 bcm of gas in its underground storage facilities against 17.2 bcm reported before the start of the 2018-2019 heating season.
Earlier, NJSC Naftogaz of Ukraine said the country needed to accumulate at least 20 bcm of gas in its USFs to pass the heating season smoothly.