Gas reserves in Ukrainian underground gas storage facilities (PHG) are historically low and full of fullness is approaching 10%, which is very risky, according to the former director of the “Operator of the GTS of Ukraine” Sergey Maccoon.

This was reported by the publication "

" Exactly a year ago there was a fullness of 19.7% or 5.950 billion m3. That is, 2.575 billion m3 more, ”Makoona cited the data.

According to him, information that 8.1 billion cubic meters are now in the information space in storage facilities. m and they are filled by 27%, but this difference is explained by the fact that the reserves include 4.513 billion cubic meters. m of buffer gas, which cannot be taken from PHG without violation of the operating conditions of storage facilities.

Naftogaz of Ukraine NAC does not exclude and do not refute Maccoon's information, but they note that they have enough gas reserves to pass the heating season. Without providing any calculations.

At the same time, against the backdrop of a historical decrease in reserves in the PHG, in the Poltava region the work of the regal Petroleum Corporation Limited, one of the gas producing enterprises of the Smart Energy group, which can give up to 6.5 million cubic meters of gas monthly.

" M3 natural gas, 35 tons of condensate, 25 tons of oil, 19 tons of liquefied gas. And this is at a time when the PHG is semi -empty. How much does the Ukrainian economy lose it before the end of the year is not difficult to count, ”the chairman of the subsoil use committee of the European Business Association Committee Dmitry Kashchuk drew attention to the problem.

According to him, if the work of the enterprise is not unlocking in the near future, the most productive current gas well No. 119 of the Mehedzovsko-Golotovskoye deposit due to factory will be lost, and about 390 million cubic meters of gas will remain in the bowels forever..

" Such a mechanism was used for Smart Energy enterprises in front -line Kharkovshchina. Unfortunately, this happened only after 1.5 years of downtime and significant losses for the economy. Therefore, we very much hope for the speedy resumption of the work of gas manufacturing enterprises. Each gas cubic meter in the current situation is important, ”the company noted.

Recall that in November last year, the State Service for Geology and Subsoil awardly annulled licenses for the production of natural gas at Sviridovsky and Mehedzovsko-Golotovskoye deposits of the Poltava region, as well as the Vasishchevsky deposit of the Kharkiv region. Earlier, the Ministry of Economics and the Security Service of Ukraine did not answer the question of why it was to stop gas production at three deposits in the Kharkov and Poltava regions and why preliminary corrective conclusions of the National Security and Defense Council were not taken into account, which led to a stop of gas production.