Ukraine in the period from Sept. 1 to Sept. 28 imported around 705 million cubic meters of natural gas from Slovakia.
According to tentative data from Eustream a.s., the operator of the Slovakian gas transport system, the volume of reverse flow to Ukraine is stable, at around 26 million cubic meters a day.
According to tentative data of FGSZ, the operator of the Hungarian gas transport system, from Sept. 26 gas was not supplied to Ukraine. In the period from Sept. 1 to Sept. 25, some 88.5 million cubic meters of gas was delivered from Hungary.
According to tentative data from the operator of the Polish gas transport system – Gaz-System S.A., in the period from Sept. 1 to Sept. 27, 2014 99.5 million cubic meters was delivered to Ukraine.
Thus, if the current volume of supplies from Slovakia and Poland is maintained, Ukraine will import almost 1 billion cubic meters of gas from Europe in September.
In addition, according to tentative data from public joint-stock company Uktransgaz, as of September 27 Ukraine has accumulated 16.601 billion cubic meters of natural gas in its underground storage facilities.
The minimum guaranteed capacity of the Vojany-Uzhgorod pipeline, which is supplying gas to Ukraine from Europe, amounts to 6.4 billion cubic meters or 17.5 million cubic meters of gas a day. The design capacity of the pipeline is about 10 billion cubic meters a year or 27 million cubic meters a day.
The largest part of downstream transport capacity until 2019 at the Vojany-Uzhgorod pipeline was purchased by Ukraine’s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrainy.
Ukraine imported 2.132 bcm of gas from Europe in 2013.
