Natural gas reserves in Ukraine’s underground storage facilities (USFs) have shrunk by 9.6%, or by 1.65 billion cubic meters, to 15.5 billion cubic meters since November 7, when Ukraine started pumping out gas from its stocks.
As of December 8 gas reserves in the country’s USFs were estimated at 15.542 billion cubic meters, down by 1.3% YoY, the state-run gas transport system operator Ukrtransgaz said.
In particular, 62.69 million cubic meters of gas was withdrawn from storage facilities on December 8 alone.
The country’s USFs were filled by 50% as of December 8. (UNIAN/Business World Magazine)