Ukraine's requirements for imported gas in 2014 are estimated at about 30 billion cubic meters (bcm), Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Yuriy Prodan has said at a press conference in Kyiv.
“In general this year it is about 30 billion cubic meters. But it could be 27
or 31-32 billion cubic meters. Now the gas balance is pending approval,” he
said.
Prodan said that this volume has not been differentiated by importing
companies.
The minister said that the current volume of gas in underground gas storage
facilities in Ukraine is appropriate for the end of the heating season.
“This is a normal level of gas after completing a heating season,” he
said.
As reported, earlier Gazprom expressed concern about a significant decline in
active gas stocks in Ukraine’s underground gas storage facilities.
Natural gas stocks in Ukrtransgaz’s underground gas storage facilities as of
April 1 amounted to 7.2 billion cubic meters.
