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Ukraine increases gas consumption by 2.8% in H1 2018

Ukraine boosted natural gas consumption in January-June 2018 by 2.8%, or 500 million cubic meters (mcm) year-over-year, to 18.2 billion cubic meters (bcm).

In particular, the industry consumed 6 bcm of gas (a 19.6% increase from January-June 2017), while households and budget organizations used 6.86 bcm (a 1.5% decrease), municipal heat suppliers – 3.9 bcm (a rise of 5.6%) and gas for industrial needs totaled 1.5 bcm (a fall of 28.6%), the Ukrainian Energy and Coal Ministry has said.

As was reported earlier, Ukraine in 2017 reduced natural gas consumption by 0.5% or 161 mcm of gas from 2016, to 32.2 bcm.

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