OREANDA-NEWS   Gazprom reduced the volume of gas transit through Ukraine by 7.9% on January 17.

Gazprom supplies Russian gas for transit through the territory of Ukraine in the amount confirmed by the Ukrainian side through GIS Sudzha — 32.6 million cubic meters as of January 17. The application for GIS "Sokhranovka" has been rejected," the message says. The day before, the pumping volume was 35.4 million cubic meters.

Gazprom has reduced transit through Ukraine several times this month. On January 4, the pumping volume decreased by more than 10% — from 42.2 million to 37.8 million cubic meters. m per day. The next day, pumping amounted to 3.76 million cubic meters, and on January 6 — 35.5 million cubic meters.

Gazprom supplies gas based on consumer requests, now warm weather has set in Europe, a source close to the Russian side explained to RBC. Sergey Kapitonov, an analyst at the project center for energy transfer and ESG of Skoltech, also admitted that the decrease may be due to a drop in demand against the background of an increase in air temperature.

As experts of the consulting company EBW Analytics noted, the beginning of January 2023 in Europe "became the warmest in at least the last 15 years." The weather made it possible to save gas and keep stocks in storage. According to the Association of Gas Infrastructure Operators of Europe (GIE) on January 15, the total level of gas in EU storage facilities is 81.5%.

Russia and Ukraine signed an agreement on gas transit at the end of December 2019.