Ukrainian gas stocks down to nearly 13.4 bcm within week

REUTERS

12:20, 22.01.2018

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Natural gas reserves in Ukrainian underground storage facilities (USFs) on January 13-20 shrank by 4%, or 574 million cubic meters, to 13.454 billion cubic meters (bcm) from 14.028 bcm, according to the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz.

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In particular, 61.27 mcm of gas was withdrawn from storage facilities on January 20 alone, the report said.

As 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.

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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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