Ukraine stops pumping gas into underground storage facilities and starts withdrawing reserves
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On Wednesday, October 22, Ukraine stopped pumping natural gas into underground storage facilities (UGS) and started withdrawing it. About this testify data from the European platform Aggregated Gas Storage Inventory (AGSI), writes "Interfax-Ukraine.

As of October 22, gas reserves in Ukrainian storage facilities exceeded 8.5 billion cubic meters (excluding process gas – long-term storage gas).

Prior to that, Ukraine reached the level of natural gas reserves planned by the government for the heating season two weeks earlier: 13.2 billion cubic meters. This figure includes 4.7 billion cubic meters of process gas and volumes located in the temporarily occupied territories.

According to the former Minister of Energy Olga Buslavetsrecently, the rate of gas injection has decreased to 10 million cubic meters per day due to a decline in domestic production and increased consumption, in particular due to the start of the heating season in some social facilities.

  • In August, the Vice Prime Minister for Recovery, Minister of Community and Territorial Development Oleksiy Kuleba said that Ukraine has accumulated 11 billion cubic meters of gas – this is 80% of the plan. According to the minister, gas injection into Ukraine's underground storage facilities is going according to plan, sometimes even ahead of schedule.
  • As of September 12, Naftogaz imported to Ukraine almost all of the American LNGcontracted by Orlen.