This is the latest start of selection in the last decade.
extraction of gas from underground gas storages. This is the latest officially recorded start of gas extraction over the past decade, the Naftogaz press service reported.
Currently, gas sampling is conducted at one gas storage, which was chosen for the start of sampling due to maximum flexibility in regulating technological modes. The company notes that in this way, the gas storage operator will be able to quickly respond to the needs of the system and the population during the change of seasons.
At the same time, such a late start of the selection this year is connected with several main factors:
- favorable weather conditions and relatively high air temperature in the autumn months;
- increased interest in injecting gas into Ukrainian PSGs on the part of non-resident companies;
- a general reduction in the level of energy consumption in Ukraine
Ukrtransgaz assures that the system successfully passed the season pumping and ready for the heating season.
“We understand that we face difficult challenges and the hardest winter in the history of independent Ukraine. However, as always, we are ready for work and will do everything in our power to ensure that homes, shelters, hospitals, schools and kindergartens in Ukraine are warm,” said Serhii Pereloma, head of Ukrtransgaz.
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We note that most Ukrainian cities started the heating season only at the beginning of November. Thus, heating was started in Kyiv on October 20, in Kropyvnytskyi on October 31, and in Odesa and Lviv only on November 8.
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