Miller: Gas storage facilities in Europe and Ukraine are critically empty
Gazprom pumped a billion cubic meters of gas into underground storage facilities in Europe at the end of December.
The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, reported this today at a meeting on the heating season with the President of the Russian Federation, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“From December 21 to December 25, European operators recorded daily records for gas extraction from European underground storage facilities, and this was over a multi-year observation period. Today, Europe's subways are 44% depleted, and the underground storage facilities of a country like Germany are 47% depleted.
It should be noted that the gas reserves in underground storage facilities in Europe are 21 billion cubic meters less than in the same period last year, which is 28% or almost one third less. This is a very large shortage of gas in underground storage, and it has a significant impact on the European gas market,” Miller said.
According to him, Gazprom has fully fulfilled its obligations under the contract for gas transit through the territory of Ukraine.
“Our planned volume is 40 billion cubic meters of gas. Today we have already transited 41,5 billion cubic meters through the territory of Ukraine. On December 24, Ukraine entered the zone of historical minimum gas reserves in its underground storage facilities. Today, gas reserves in Ukraine amount to less than 14 billion cubic meters of gas, which is ten billion less than at the end of December last year,” Miller noted.
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