Less than 8 bln cubic m of gas left at the Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities

​Gas reserves at the Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities fell to 7.925 bln cubic m - only 24% of their capacity, the Association of European operators of underground gas storage facilities (GSE) reports.

As of March 1st there were 8.158 bln cubic m of gas at the Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities. From the beginning of March the Ukraine used 233 mln cubic m of gas. From the beginning of the year the gas reserves of the Ukraine fell by 3.443 bln cubic m  (from 11.368 bln cubic m).

According to the National Energy Safety Fund, due to the technological peculiarities the volume of buffer gas (the limit remaining at the underground gas storage facilities to lift gas at the necessary volumes) at the Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities is to make up 6-7 bln cubic m in winter.

The Ukraine started to use gas from the underground gas storage facilities on October 20th 2014. At the start of the heating season there were 16.7 bln cubic m of gas at the Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities.