"Chernomorneftegaz" By the beginning of the heating season created only in the Crimea is Glebovskoye underground gas storage supply 1, 27 billion cubic meters, sufficient for the passage of winter, and already started the selection of " blue fuel ", reports the press service of the organization.

"By the beginning of the heating season of the state unitary enterprise of the RK "Chernomorneftegaz" was added in Glebovsky UGS 509 million cubic meters of gas, an active gas volume has reached 1, 27 billion cubic meters. A similar reserve was accumulated at the beginning of the heating period in the previous year ", - reported in the report.

in the organization also point out that at present the total gas consumption in Crimea is about 7 million cubic meters per day, of which 2 million cubic metres the previous day filtered out from UGS, the remaining 5 million amounted to current production. As decreasing the temperature and increasing the consumption of the Peninsula of " blue fuel ", the selection from the repository will grow, add in a press-service of the organization.

"Chernomorneftegaz ", supplying the inhabitants of the Peninsula gas, to March 2014 belonged to " Naftogaz of Ukraine ", but after the referendum on joining of Crimea to Russia the enterprise was nationalized. It operates hydrocarbon deposits on the shelf of the Black and Azov seas and on the land part of the Crimean Peninsula. In addition, the company provides transportation and storage of gas.

the organization includes the only on the Peninsula UGS - Glebovsky, created on the base of the eponymous depleted field. UGS lies at a depth of 940 meters, its volume is 2 billion cubic meters of gas, fifty percent of a buffer gas, meaning that one must always reside in storage to maintain its work. The remaining gas is called active, it is removed from storage during the heating season.

plans to "Chernomorneftegaz" until the end of 2016 to complete the restoration of the Glebovskoye underground gas storage. In total volume of active storage volume shall increase to 3 billion cubic meters.

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