REUTERS
As of February 1, 2020, gas reserves in the country's USFs were 53% up from the figure reported as of February 1, 2019.
Natural gas stocks in Ukraine's underground storage facilities (USFs) have shrunk by 22%, to 16.95 billion cubic meters (bcm) since November 2, when Ukraine started pumping out gas from its reserves amid the heating season.
As of February 1, 2020, gas reserves in the country's USFs stood at 16.95 bcm, which was 53% up from 11.1 bcm as of February 1, 2019, the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz said.
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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.