KIEV: Natural gas stocks at Ukraine’s underground storage facilities after the completion of the 2015/2016 heating season have increased by 400.53 million 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 May 8 gas stocks amounted to 8.838 billion cubic meters (bcm, up year-over-year).The company said that May 8, 2016, gas was pumped to the underground storage facilities with the daily pace of 16.6 million cubic meters and on April 23, 2015 – 44.68 million cubic meters.
From April 29 through May 1 Ukrainian underground storage facilities operated in the mixed gas pumping mode. In addition, imports of natural gas on May 8 totaled 2.976 million cubic meters of gas imported exclusively from the EU: 1.901 million cubic meters from Slovakia, 1.075 million cubic meters from Hungary and no gas from Poland since May 1. Imports from Russia were suspended on November 26, 2015.
