Last year, natural gas production in the European Union countries collapsed by 22.8 percent, from 70 billion cubic meters in 2019 to 54 billion. This is stated in the quarterly report of the European Commission on European Gas Markets, reports RIA Novosti.
separately in the fourth quarter, mining is fixed at 14 billion cubic meters, which is 15 percent lower than in the same period of 2019. For the Netherlands, the fall over the past three months amounted to 17 percent, up to 6.2 billion. The second extraction remained Romania (2.4 billion), for her Poland (1.5 billion) and Germany (1.1 billion).
Meanwhile, Gazprom in early April reported a sharp increase in deliveries. In the first quarter of 2021, he was pumped in far abroad 52.7 billion cubic meters of gas – 30.7 percent more than a year ago. At the same time in March, even more was delivered than in February.
For EU countries, the effect is the strongest effect noticeable in Romania (plus 90.4 percent), in Serbia (plus 71.3 percent), in Finland (plus 67.3 percent) and in Bulgaria (plus 52.4 percent).
Against this background in the past winter in the region, the gas reserves were recorded. From the underground gas warehouses, the maximum total for ten years is 65.6 billion cubic meters, their fullness after passing the autumn-winter period amounted to 29 percent.