Ukraine in 2012, envisages to increase its gas production by 4%

The need for natural gas in Ukraine in 2012 is forecast to fall by 25.1% compared with the projected need for 2011 – up to 61.298 billion cubic meters. Domestic production of natural gas, according to the budgeted balance, amount to 21.578 billion cubic meters, import – 33.917 billion cubic meters (in the quantities from Russia – 27.4 billion cubic meters), the selection of underground storage (UGS) – 5.803 billion cubic meters. Thus, with the help of its gas through Ukraine annually collected