OREANDA-NEWS. May 11, 2011. According to data of the Joint Supervisory control of the “Ukrtransgaz”, in April 2011 natural gas transit through Ukraine in comparison with April of last year increased more than 18% and reached 9.9 billion cubic meters. In this case the transit to Europe grew by 19%, reaching 9.7 billion cubic meters.

Since the beginning of 2011 (4 months) the amount of transited gas through Ukraine totaled 65.3 billion cubic meters, almost 8% more than the same period of 2010.

According to data for 4 months the transit of natural gas through Ukraine is 40.2 billion cubic meters (including in Western Europe, 38.9 billion cubic meters, the CIS countries - 1.3 million cubic meters) in the same period in 2010 it was totaled 35.9 billion cubic meters (Western Europe - 34,6 billion cubic meters and the CIS - 1,3 billion cubic meters, respectively).