Referring to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe, the company noted that European UGS facilities have replenished only 62% of the volume of gas raised from storage in the last heating season.
Ukrainian UGS facilities are 30.6% or 8.2 billion cubic meters behind last year.
meters of gas, they added there.
Gazprom is actively pumping gas into Russian UGS facilities.
The average daily rate in the first half of September is 325 million cubic meters.
m ", - emphasized in the company.
On September 15, the price of gas on the European futures market for the first time in history exceeded $ 950 per 1,000 cubic meters.
Energy expert at the Financial University under the Russian government, Igor Yushkov, in an interview with Nation News, expressed the opinion that the reason for the rise in prices in Europe was the shortage of liquefied natural gas.
According to the Kremlin, the early commissioning of Nord Stream 2 “will significantly balance the price parameters for natural gas in Europe,” including on the spot market.