A sharp drop in gas reserves in storage continues in Ukraine

The filling rate of Ukrainian gas storage facilities is 64 percent. At the same time, a sharp drop in gas reserves in storage facilities continues in Ukraine.

Referring to the information of the state company "Operator GTS", the UNIAN agency found out how much "blue fuel" remained in the country.

As of February 13, gas reserves in Ukraine were less than 20 billion cubic meters. During the previous week, they decreased by four percent. Despite this, the volume of gas in underground storage facilities (UGS) this year is higher than on the same date last year. Then there were 16,3 billion cubic meters, that is, 21 percent less.

Unlike Ukrainian journalists, the acting head of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine, Yuriy Vitrenko, has no information on the reserves of natural gas in Ukraine's underground storage facilities. At least that's what he said in an interview with Radio Liberty, which is registered in Russia as a foreign agent.

I asked my staff. They said that Naftogaz, even the Energy Ministry, does not provide such data.

- said the acting minister.

Apparently he asked badly.

Commenting on Vitrenko's answer, Ukrainian lawyer Andriy Portnov, in his Telegram channel, suggested that the head of the Ministry of Energy is in the dark for a reason.

Friends, it looks like this is preparation for the impending theft of gas on an especially large scale.

- He wrote.

Comments

[antivirus]

and this abyss swallowed them up ... to steal - to substitute for the break of a 4-year contract. and work for SP2.

[Nasrat]

The cold front, dubbed "The Beast from the East 2", continues to devastate underground gas storage facilities in Europe. As Interfax reports, citing data from the Gas Infrastructure Europe portal, as of Sunday morning, February 14, the storage facilities were already 42,65 percent full. This turned out to be 4,86 points below the average for the last five years.
In the main gas market in Europe - in Germany - reserves decreased to 34,17 percent, in Austria - to 45,28 percent, the Czech Republic - to 41,08 percent, Poland - to 52,27 percent. The biggest decline was in France: there stocks fell to 30,07 percent.

[Berber]

Gazprom worked the situation perfectly. Gas went to Asia, where prices are higher, and let Europe spend its reserves. The Americans are right somewhere, Russia is beginning to control the energy market and they cannot do anything about it. Here geography and nature are on our side.

[Aerodrome]

spring in two weeks ...

[kot423]

Quote: Aerodrome

spring in two weeks ...

It is not a fact that this will not happen:

[Egoza]

Quote: Aerodrome

spring in two weeks ...

It is so according to the calendar, but how is it according to the thermometer? "Rugbus, crocsword", as the unforgettable Rikir used to say. And if we don't have minus 30, then minus 20 will also make us shake, because with high humidity and strong wind, these 20 will "feel" like 30.

[Cowbra]

Quote: Egoza

And if we don't have minus 30

In Moscow, -27 on Saturday, -30 next Monday night. It's time to put on "concert boots and concert quilted jacket"

[lis-ik]

Quote: Egoza

Quote: Aerodrome

spring in two weeks ...

It is so according to the calendar, but how is it according to the thermometer? "Rugbus, crocsword", as the unforgettable Rikir used to say. And if we don't have minus 30, then minus 20 will also make us shake, because with high humidity and strong wind, these 20 will "feel" like 30.

In Moscow -20 and there is a lot of snow, the forecast for March is about the same, real spring, as a rule, starts from mid-April, and in the storage facilities of Ukraine, they will not fall below the level that allows pumping. On that and survive, what's the difference by how many percent there is more or less. If only to catch up with the negative, but to concoct the news.

[dauria]

real spring usually starts in mid-April

It's about Ukraine. In mid-April, dandelions bloom there and you can swim in the Dnieper. And spring (when plus at night and there is no snow anymore, this is the first half of March). I'm talking about Kiev, I studied there.

[Insurgent]

Quote: dauria

It's about Ukraine. In mid-April, dandelions bloom there and you can swim in the Dnieper.

Dandelions are blooming - no doubt but swim... Brrr ... "For an amateur" ("Walrus", or drunk )

With bathing, you "bent"

[Mouse]

spring in two weeks ...

Hold on, people, summer is coming !!!

[halpat]

Quote: Mouse

spring in two weeks ...

Hold on, people, summer is coming !!!

Thanks to Putin for this !!!

This is me in order to complete your post in rhyme

[Berber]

Quote: Halpat

Thanks to Putin for this !!!

This is me in order to complete your post in rhyme

If there is no water in the tap, then Putin is to blame! ...

[Brturin]

Who is to blame ... but in 2015 the CIA was already figuring out if the Russians could control the weather and harm the states ... then the Trump administration came, now Obama personnel are turning around, so that they can continue ...

[Alf]

Quote: BerBer

If there is no water in the tap, then Putin is to blame! ...

If there is no water in the aqueduct, then the inhabitants of the province of Judea are to blame.

[Sergej1972]

This year, it seems, winter will last until the end of March.

[dedusik]

Yes, by all accounts so.
What the weather is for Meeting - so the spring will be.
If on the eve of the Meeting the sky is dotted with stars, then spring will bloom later than usual

[Machito]

Quote: Aerodrome

spring in two weeks ...

Winter Is Coming. (C) TV series Game of Thrones.

[mitroha]

Such short news and long comments

[izGOI]

Let me explain that in Europe spring begins on March 21st. And it's not a fact that April will be warmer than February. I tried it on my own skin.

[Maks winter]

there is an old Russian proverb: - ​​"A martok has come - put on seven trousers". so, there will still be ...

[210ox]

Something is not felt the approach of spring. Even here in the Kuban.

[major147]

Quote: 210ox

Something is not felt the approach of spring. Even here in the Kuban.

In Rostov n / a at night -10! For us, this is brrrrr!

[Ryaruav]

and you, apparently, as spring came, turn off the heating and are tempered following the example of the Europeans, it's me he writes to the airfield that spring is in two weeks

[Alf]

Quote: Aerodrome

spring in two weeks ...

Does nature know that?

[tralflot1832]

Europe has well stocked up on cheap gas in 2020, but the reserves are not endless! Now let them shell out, they need gas themselves, and then some kind of Ukraine. Even the Poles have somehow quieted down. Europe is waiting for the spring! Two weeks, there should be enough supplies. And there again in hot, friendly hugs Gazprom and Novatek, but at a different price. Even Novak grew bolder, after construction, Nord Stream 2 will be loaded with 100% of its capacity. He pokes fun, and in Ukraine they ran after Volidol.

[antivirus]

Validol through the pipe to Europe is he bent, enough for them and gas ................................... if rightly asked

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

The frost would have lasted another couple of months, all over the EU and in Ukria. Soon the stoves will be heated with EU flags.

[tralflot1832]

Let them wait for global warming! Maybe not this time. That the Germans have become compliant with us on the account of Nord Stream 2, they probably remember the frost near Moscow at a genic level.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

And the frosts near Moscow, remember ... the Siberian divisions. Their genetic memory is good.

[major147]

Quote: tralflot1832

After construction, Nord Stream 2 will be loaded with 100% capacity.

Meanwhile, "Fortuna" resumed work after a storm + 620 m in the first day of work.

[Black_eagle]

Here geography and nature are on our side.


And the war in Syria too. So that some kind of Qatar, for example, does not lay a pipe to Europe. And then igil igil ... Yeah, of course!

[Brturin]

Quote: Black_eagle

so that some kind of Qatar, for example, did not lay a pipe to Europe

so apart from Syria, the Emirates agreed with the Israelis on an oil pipeline, so that there are options, the question is that the same Israelis did not send their gas to the EastMed gas pipeline, but to Egypt, to LNG plants ...

[tralflot1832]

Faster, the Jews from their Leviathan in the Mediterranean Sea will throw gas to Europe. They already consider the debit a credit.

[alexmach]

Gas went to Asia, where prices are higher, and let Europe spend its reserves

What kind of gas do you mean? Pipeline gas does not know how to go to Asia instead of Europe.

[Berber]

The pipeline does not go, but the liquefied one can go to Europe and Asia. And the pipeline valves were simply screwed on. This is control. Or am I wrong?

[alexmach]

The pipeline does not go, but the liquefied one can go to Europe and Asia

Got it. Want an anegdote? As they say, it was not just LNG that went there, but American LNG, the very one under which Trump so zealously bent Europe. Bent, bent, bent ... and sold it to Asia :)

[tralflot1832]

Even the German government today did not bend and sent all the "well-wishers" into the forest. Bargaining is not appropriate here.

[Berber]

Quote: alexmach

Got it. Want an anegdote? As they say, it was not just LNG that went there, but American LNG, the very one under which Trump so zealously bent Europe. Bent, bent, bent ... and sold it to Asia :)

It's funny. In fact, even funny.

[Insurgent]

Quote: alexmach

Pipeline gas does not know how to go to Asia instead of Europe.

Well, yes ... China is Europe, or not ?

[alexmach]

Well, yes ... China is Europe, or not wassat?

And what do you mean by that? That gas went to China instead of Europe or what? Probably went on foot? Along the route of the not yet built Power of Siberia-2, so to speak, outline a route?

[private person]

Russia begins to control the energy market

Do you yourself believe it? How can Russia control when the main shareholders are over the hill.

[Berber]

Of course, there are shareholders. For example BANK of NY is 25%, but they are not the main ones. Look at the structure of GAZPROM equity holders. And dividends are paid after taxes. So the state gets a significant share.

[Ros 56]

And to hell with them, what is to us.

[Brturin]

Quote: Nasr

The cold front, dubbed "The Beast from the East 2", continues to devastate underground gas storage facilities in Europe.

"The beast from the East 2", and what a beast in the states, they write - "Arctic frosts continue to march across the United States, and the country has recorded about 800 daily temperature records. The power consumption of electricity in Texas, for example, has reached almost 70 GW and has already broken the historical record ... Texas is running out of electricity not only because demand has skyrocketed, but half of the state's wind turbines have stopped due to freezing temperatures, and gas production has dropped by 8% in the United States over the past few days, which also affects generation.
https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2021/02/15/blekaut-v-tehase-zamerzayut-gazovye-skvazhiny-stoit-polovina-vetryakov
The Bloomberg expert believes that the reason for the explosive growth in prices was the underdeveloped infrastructure of gas supply to the regions. The NGI edition notes that frosts fall on the weekend and during the four-day celebration of President's Day, explosive growth in prices for wholesale gas supplies was recorded at four more regional hubs in Arkansas, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. NGI's director of strategy and research, Patrick Rau, explains that these are hubs at the crossroads of gas pipelines, where there are now "too many pipes to suck gas in the face of declining supplies." For example, RBN Energy reported that its production in the Permian basin fell by 42 million cubic meters per day. https://eadaily.com/ru/news/2021/02/14/ssha-primorozilo-ceny-na-gaz-i-elektroenergiyu-uleteli-v-kosmos

[tralflot1832]

So they also have it in the USA because of the frost, the difference in the price of gas between the states can be thousands of dollars. Gas pipelines do you understand different owners It has already happened more than once.

[tralflot1832]

The state of Oklahoma is $ 17,7 thousand per thousand cubic meters, take it or freeze it. And this is considered normal for them? For that in Southeast Asia, 30 tankers with LNG go across the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean. Love for the population in the American way. We won the election, it was necessary to vote correctly. Is this not genocide? Checked for Trump 65% for Biden 32%. Draw conclusions.

[Mountain shooter]

Quote: antivirus

and this abyss swallowed them up ... to steal - substitute for the break of a 4-year contract. and work for SP2

Oho-ho ... They will smear it out in every possible way and justify ... But cold batteries are cold batteries ... You can't smear it with your tongue ... you can't even get warm.

[credo]

Quote: antivirus

and this abyss swallowed them up ... to steal - to substitute for the break of a 4-year contract. and work for SP2.

That Portnov, that Vitrenko - one field of "berries" and seem to be worth each other.
They steal everywhere in the world, but only in Ukraine the topic of stealing everyone and everything has become a national fix idea.

[Finches]

On the count of three, let's go - Ukraine has not died yet!

[Pete mitchell]

Honestly, I don’t understand - let the 404s worry, they will start tyriting transit gas - let Europe worry. Russia complies with its obligations - the topic is closed.

[Finches]

Worry, do not worry, but they will start tyrit and they will start tyrit with us! That's the trouble! And with this they will also pour mud ...

[Pete mitchell]

Quote: Finches

will start tyrit with us! That's the trouble! And with this they will also pour mud ...

About muddying this is as always - you need to beat backhand so that repetition is not required. And, of course, it is necessary to support the aspiration of the 404 country to join Europe - with a collective responsibility: you scam "from your own", figure it out yourself

[antivirus]

stop transit through the outskirts and pay the contract for an empty pipe. and drive along other routes. Gift to Kuchma and Pinchuk.

[halpat]

Quote: antivirus

and this abyss swallowed them up ... to steal - to substitute for the break of a 4-year contract. and work for SP2.

When bosses see an opportunity to steal, then they temporarily lose all other instincts, both conditional and unconditional, including the instinct of self-preservation.

[Oleg Shlyapin]

I wonder if you lie all the time and believe in your lies. the roof doesn't go?

[Marconi41]

Will buy. Will not go anywhere.

[Nyrobsky]

Frost has broken out and now they are sipping someone else's gas directly from the storage facilities without bothering with the formalities of giving this procedure at least some kind of legend - such as reverse deliveries. Zmyrzrli puppies

[evgen1221]

Hmm. This nonsense of near-exchange terms sometimes leads to a stupor. Has gone up by 4 points from what? - From 100% of the storage capacity in the country or from the remainder in them? And the next year, they introduced another storehouse into the store and bring the percentage on the state to last year, so a deliberately incorrect calculation turns out then (if you don’t know the details, and those details are sometimes state secrets And so in everything. And what for we are generally far from complete information on the topic, lead stubs of this information? Five minutes of tenderness-hatred to arrange that's all?

[210ox]

Not interesting at all. And about the "impending theft in especially large", but not surprising.

[From Tomsk]

Could pump 200 yards of gas and make $ 10 billion for free every year clean. But Ukrainians choose their own path and now pay the same amount every year to their owners on loans.

[Sancho_SP]

Those 10 billion would go to the budget. And now, though less, but right away where it is necessary.

[Ros 56]

So it pleases, why do they need aggressive gas, striped democratic ones will give a lift, but no, so no one canceled the jumping, and so they will keep warm.

[Gennady Fomkin]

Ukrainian underground storage facilities this year were filled with gas to the eyeballs. Moreover, a considerable part of it belongs not to Naftogaz, but to private traders. It was bought in the summer at bargain prices. And there will be more than enough people willing to supply substantial volumes of it to TPPs and CHPPs at the current price. And the former "gasman" Vitrenko may well help them in this.

[Gennady Fomkin]

And to Rotterdam and Copenhagen, gentlemen! Oh, how suddenly the sofa ran out of coal.

Somehow it coincided: in progressive Japan there are problems with electricity, gas is becoming more expensive in Europe and Asia, Trump's diarrhea in the States. Probably something is going on?

[Gennady Fomkin]

Every year ends there. Everything will be fine with them! Until it gets bad at all ... Muscovites swallowed all the coal by the vows. What bastards ...

[mojohed2012]

SP2 will be completed soon. No sanctions will stop the construction and launch. This is witnessed by the Beast from the East2, as the cold and snowy cyclone from Russia was called, which caused record gas cuts in EU storage facilities.
As soon as SP2 is launched even in test mode, it seems that the Ukrainian gas transportation system will be good-bye. It doesn't matter for what reason or provocation. Yes, at least at any station or gas pumping stations, something will pop or sabotage. You never know on the walk-field patriots and fighters for everything good against everything bad!
And then they will want to take revenge - they will hit the Donbas.

[Crimean partisan 1974]

A beast from the East2, as the cold and snowy cyclone from the Russian side was called, ...... eka attack ... even a chuyka tells me that hysterics will soon begin in the west about testing Russian climate weapons ... and the next operation will be "bear -shatun ", the beast from the east 2 it is, snowflakes

[yfast]

The beast from East 2 (Arctic fox) stimulated Nord Stream 2.

[cniza]

A sharp drop in gas reserves in storage continues in Ukraine

Soon they will start stealing insolently ...

[askort154]

Ukraine has been purchasing electricity from Russia and Belarus for a month now. Rake jumping "Russia aggressor" does not shine and does not warm.

[Black lotos]

Judging by the weather forecasts, the last week of frost remains. Further warming.
Although modern forecasts should not be particularly trusted (and accurate forecasts cost a lot of money)
and this winter was much colder than the previous one. And snowier. As a result, we have more humidity, but lower temperatures. That is, somewhere everyone won (having received more moisture compared to the last dry year) somewhere they lost, having received additional expenses for frost, heating, and infrastructure damage from ice and snow
In general, parity.
Well, underground storage facilities, both the largest and European, are intended for this. At a favorable price, Gazprom pumped in cheap gas (they wrote that to abandon the Ukrainian direction, as a cunning plan). Now they are spending it.
Ukrainian storage facilities are designed to smooth peaks, so neither Gazprom nor the EU intend to abandon them. The weather and gas consumption are too often unstable.

[Dimide]

He smiled. There was 64% of gas left. The heating season starts on October 15 and ends on April 15, that is, 36% was used in four months, I think that the remaining gas will be enough for two months for sure.
An article from the category of how everything shits with the neighbors

[cniza]

Gas is used not only during the heating season and the 64% figure does not mean anything at all ...

[Dimide]

I agree with you, these 36% include the volume of gas used by the industry
It's just that the article is really about nothing.

[Dimide]

The head of the board of Naftogaz, Andrey Kobolev, predicts that Ukraine will exit the 2020/2021 heating season with about 17 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves in underground storage facilities.
As of February 1, 21, the storage facilities had 21,04 billion cubic meters of gas

[realmadmaxx]

the main thing for us (Russia) is not to save them

[Dimka75]

This means that Gazprom is unable to cope with the peak gas consumption in Europe. And that's okay. The daily volume of transportation is not calculated for this. In Europeans, gas consumption increases sharply in severe cold weather. This always happens in winter.
In this case, ukro GTS plays the role of a buffer. Giving gas from underground storages to Europeans.
Gazprom itself is not interested in empty storage facilities (as happened a couple of times a few years ago) and the contract for the supply to Europe is not fulfilled.

[Brturin]

Quote: Dimka75

This means that Gazprom is unable to cope with the peak gas consumption in Europe.

Or maybe the Europeans do not want to buy yet ... they were stocking up on gas almost 2 years ago, when it was not clear what agreement Gazprom would conclude with Naftogaz, that winter was warm and this winter they entered with record reserves, now the "Beast" has come, a reason to sell off old stocks at relatively high prices, and in the summer, when gas becomes cheaper again, to replenish business ... there are many versions ...

[Avior]

no, the scheme does not work this way
Ukraine used to buy gas from Gazprom in the summer, and then in the winter it reduced purchases and Gazprom could supply more gas to Europe at peak consumption.
In fact, Gazprom's gas was still consumed in Ukraine, but in return Ukraine raised gas from storage facilities - they are on the western border - and delivered it to Europe along with the gas that went directly to Europe, thus compensating for consumption in Ukraine. For Ukraine, by the way, the scheme was unprofitable - the price of gas was the same in winter and summer.
But now the situation has changed.
Ukraine does not buy gas from Gazprom, so the scheme works like this - in the summer the storage facilities are filled with cheap gas on the reverse from Europe, and in the winter Gazprom gas is consumed in Ukraine, and gas is supplied to Europe from the storage facilities in the same volume.

[HAM]

Not otherwise "Gazprom" and personally Miller launched "The Beast from the East 2" instead of "SP2", brace yourself, Europeans, Biden will help ....... maybe, maybe not ....

[NF68]

There is nothing surprising in this. Temperatures in Western Europe have been very low in the last 10 days. So they consume more gas, since not a small part of it goes for heating.

[V1er]

Look at the weather in Siberia and be surprised.

[Metallurg_2]

It's strange, gas reserves are falling every winter, and the Banderlog still won't freeze ...

[Mikhail Malakhov_2]

What is the news is not very clear .. If only as an excuse for * patriots * to shout about geyropka and ukrainafse ..

Every year, gas is pumped into these storage facilities and every winter they are consumed ... They are the storage facilities for this purpose and thought

[Avior]

... The filling rate of Ukrainian gas storage facilities is 64 percent.

Yeah
There are two weeks of winters left, and the gas supply is 64 percent.
It is already clear that most of this stock will remain for next year.

[Oleg Shlyapin]

The head of the board of Naftogaz, Andrey Kobolev, predicts that Ukraine will exit the 2020/2021 heating season with about 17 billion cubic meters of natural gas reserves in underground storage facilities.

He said this in a commentary to Interfax-Ukraine.

“I think we will leave the heating season with reserves of about 17 billion cubic meters,” Kobolev noted.

According to Ukrtransgaz JSC, as of February 14, 2021, there are 19,61 billion cubic meters of gas in the UGS facilities in Ukraine, the daily withdrawal for the past day amounted to 132,4 million cubic meters.

As of February 1, the UGS facility had 21,04 billion cubic meters of gas.

Recall:

As of November 1, 2020, the stock of natural gas in underground storage facilities amounted to 28,1 billion cubic meters. m of gas. This is 30% more than last year.

https://www.epravda.com.ua/rus/news/2021/02/15/671037/