A worker at a gas storage facility in Gronau, Germany. File photoMOSCOW, Jun 9 European companies continue to prepare for winter and pump gas into underground storage facilities, their average level exceeded 50%, according to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE). the morning of June 8, is 50.24% (an increase over the day by almost 0.4 percentage points). The total volume of gas in them reached approximately 53.3 billion cubic meters. Injection of gas into storage facilities this year began on March 19 (however, in late March — early April, European companies briefly returned to the intake due to cold weather). At that time, the UGS occupancy level was 25.5% — 27.4 billion cubic meters. The mark of 30% of the average occupancy was overcome on April 20 (about 32.2 billion cubic meters), and 40% — on May 15 (about 42.7 billion cubic meters) .Injection rates have generally not slowed down after a series of refusals by European companies to pay for Russian gas under the new scheme. In the last days of May, Gazprom stopped deliveries of Gasum to Finland and GasTerra to the Netherlands, and on June 1 — Shell Energy Europe to Germany and Orsted to Denmark. » />Vucic described a «hellish» scenario for Europe without Russian gasEurope aims to fill its storage capacity by November 1 at least 80%.
