710.98 million cubic meters of gas was withdrawn from storage facilities of Europe. Storage sites contained 48.23(5 Bcm extra from Netherlands, not available in 2014) billion cubic meters of gas which is 4.63 billion cubic meters more than 43.6 billion cubic meters of 2013 gas storage the same day. A net withdrawal from storage of 5.52 Bcm for the week resulted in storage levels 10.61 % more than year-ago levels.If Netherlands data excluded the storage is
1% lowe than year ago.
Ukraine has reduced natural gas reserves in its underground gas storage facilities by %45.79 , or by 7.67 billion cubic meters , since the start of the 2014-2015 heating season, according to preliminary data from gas transport operator Ukrtransgaz.
As of October 19 2014, Ukrainian facilities had 16.75 billion cubic meters of gas at the end of its gas injection season, while this figure was 9.08 billion cubic meters as of February 5 which means the storage is %28.43 full now.
During the week ending on February 5, Ukraine withdrew average of 48 million cubic meters of gas per day.Ukraine storage may cover as much as 189 days of consumption within this last week's average.
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Europe Storage Data for 05-02-2014 |