Ukrainian gas stocks down to 12.3 bcm within week

Natural gas reserves in Ukrainian underground storage facilities (USFs) on January 27-February 3 shrank by 4.3%, or 557 million cubic meters, to 12.269 billion cubic meters (bcm) from 12.826 bcm.

In particular, 81.71 mcm of gas was withdrawn from storage facilities on February 3 alone, according to the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz.

Read alsoNumber of solar power installations in Ukraine doubles in 2017As 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).