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As of January 11, 2020, gas reserves in the country's USFs were 39.4% up from the figure reported as of January 11, 2019.
Natural gas stocks in Ukraine's underground storage facilities (USFs) have shrunk by 16.7%, to 18.12 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 11, 2020, gas reserves in the country's USFs stood at 18.12 bcm, which was 39.4% up from 13 bcm as of January 11, 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 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.