Gas stocks in Ukraine's inventories 1.4 bcm up after completion of heating season

13:51, 11.07.2016 1 min read

Natural gas stocks at Ukraine's underground storage facilities after the completion of the 2015/2016 heating season have increased by 16.7% or 1.406 billion cubic meters (bcm).

Public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz reported that if on April 6 8.438 billion cubic meters of gas were in the underground storage facilities, then on July 9 gas stocks amounted to 9.844 bcm (19.4% down year-over-year).

The company said that July 9, 2016, gas was pumped to the underground storage facilities with the daily pace of 23.73 million cubic meters and on July 9, 2015 – 26.18 million cubic meters.

On July 9 imports of natural gas was only from Slovakia and Hungary in small volumes – 1.459 million cubic meters a day. No gas was imported from Poland and Russia. Application for imports from Slovakia for July11 is 500,000 cubic meters.