MOSCOW, October 22. / TASS /. Gazprom continues to pump into underground gas storage facilities (UGS) to replenish the selected gas volumes in the 2020-2021 season and create a historically record operating reserve of 72,638 billion cubic meters. meters of gas, the holding said in a statement. Taking into account the reserves in the territory of Belarus and Armenia, 73,824 billion cubic meters will remain. m.

“The potential maximum daily productivity of the Russian UGS facility is being brought to an unprecedented level of 847.9 million cubic meters.” Taking into account the UGS facilities in Belarus and Armenia, it will amount to 887.9 million cubic meters. m.

“The company is focused on fulfilling a priority task – high reliability of gas supplies to Russian and foreign consumers.

Gazprom has fully completed repairs of 89 integrated and preliminary gas treatment units at production facilities. By the end of the year, new booster capacities were also commissioned at the Bovanenkovskoye and Yamburgskoye fields.

“Analysis of actual weather conditions in underground storage over the past few years confirms that the winter period now includes spring March. passing the season of demand peaks “, – noted in” Gazprom “.

Earlier, Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said that gas injection into Russian UGS facilities would be completed by November 1.