Gas stocks in Ukraine's inventories 12.3% up after completion of heating season
Natural gas stocks at Ukraine's underground storage facilities after the completion of the 2015/2016 heating season have increased by 12.3% or 1.034 billion cubic meters.
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 June 19 gas stocks amounted to 9.471 billion cubic meters (16.6% down year-over-year).
The company said that June 19, 2016, gas was pumped to the underground storage facilities with the daily pace of 17.93 million cubic meters and on June 19, 2015 – 51.93 million cubic meters.
In addition, imports of natural gas since early June came only from the EU in the smallest volumes –887,000 cubic meters, including 494,000 cubic meters from Slovakia and 393,000 cubic meters in Hungary. No gas was imported from Poland and Russia.
