Gas production drops by 40% after Russian attacks on Ukraine - Reuters
Due to a 40% drop in domestic gas production after Russian missile strikes, Ukraine plans to import up to 800 million cubic metres of gas from Europe in February and March 2025 to compensate for the shortfall.
This is reported by Reuters, Censor.NET informs.
As noted, before the Russian attacks, Ukraine produced about 52 million cubic metres of gas per day, while winter consumption ranged between 110 and 140 million cubic metres per day. The deficit was covered by gas storage facilities. However, following attacks on energy infrastructure, including gas fields, the country has been forced to import gas to cover the shortfall.
"We could do without imports this heating season, but the attacks on production are forcing us to import gas to compensate for this reduction in domestic production," the article says.
The Ukrainian operator of the gas transmission systems says the country started increasing gas imports at the beginning of February and the volumes since then have increased almost 10-fold to more than 20 mcm a day.
Despite low gas reserves in storage, but with planned imports and domestic gas production it will be able to see through the heating season without imposing any restrictions on industry and households. The country needs to accumulate about 13 bcm of gas for the 2025/26 winter season and at the beginning of the current season, there were 12.9 billion cubic metres of gas in storage facilities.
