OREANDA-NEWS. December 14, 2007. Ukraine reduced gas transit to Europe 2.4% in the January-November 2007 compared to the same period a year earlier to 99.9 billion cubic meters, Ukrtransgaz's press office reported. Transit through Uzhgorod gas measuring station was down 3.3% to 64.3 billion cubic meters. Transit through Tekovo gas measuring station to Romania was down 13.7% to 1.9 billion cubic meters. Transit through Beregovo gas measuring station to Hungary and Balkan states was down 8.9% to 9.2 billion cubic meters. Transit through Drozdovichi gas measuring station to Poland was down 7.4% to 3.8 billion cubic meters. While the transit through Orlovka gas measuring station to Turkey and some Balkan states was up 6.1% to 20.7 billion cubic meters.

Transit to CIS countries was down 81.3% in the 11M of 2007 to 2.7 billion cubic meters (from 14.4 billion cubic meters in the same period a year earlier). Deliveries to Moldavia were up 4.5% to 2.3 billion cubic meters. Deliveries to Russia were down 96.8% to 400,000 cubic meters (from 12.2 billion cubic meters a year earlier). The main reason for such a great decrease was Gazprom's redirecting its gas deliveries to the South of Russia through the newly started Oktyabrskaya-Sohranovka gas pipeline avoiding the territory of Ukraine.

Gas transportation to the Ukrainian customers was down 7.2% to 51.8 billion cubic meters. The usage of gas from the underground storage facilities (excluding Glebovskoe facility) was down 18.4% to 9.8 billion cubic meters. In November alone the country used 3.59 billion cubic meters of natural gas from the underground storage facilities.