Ukrainian gas reserves shrink to over 14 bcm within week

REUTERS

15:46, 15.01.2018

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Natural gas reserves in Ukrainian underground storage facilities (USFs) on January 7-13 shrank by 2.7%, or 390 million cubic meters, to 14.028 billion cubic meters (bcm) from 14.418 bcm, according to the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz.

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In particular, 77.69 mcm of gas was withdrawn from storage facilities on January 13 alone, it said.

Read alsoU.S. energy trader seeks license for gas supplies to UkraineAs UNIAN reported earlier, Ukraine started 2018 with 14.7 bcm gas in its USFs, which was the largest gas stock as of the beginning of the year in the past five years.

On October 26, Ukraine stopped injecting gas into underground storage facilities and began pumping it out for the smooth heating season.

Ukraine had accumulated 16.8 bcm of gas in the underground storage facilities by the beginning of the 2017-2018 heating season (October 15).

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