KIEV: Natural gas stocks at Ukraine’s underground storage facilities after the completion of the 2015/2016 heating season have increased by 14.1% or 1.189 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 27 gas stocks amounted to 9.626 billion cubic meters (18.5% down year-over-year).
The company said that June 27, 2016, gas was pumped to the underground storage facilities with the daily pace of 17 million cubic meters and on June 27, 2015 – 55.7 million cubic meters. In addition, imports of natural gas since early June came only from the EU in the smallest volumes –837,000 cubic meters, including 480,000 cubic meters from Slovakia and 357,000 cubic meters in Hungary. No gas was imported from Poland and Russia.
