Gas deposits in Romania today exceeded the filling level by 90%, Prime Minister Nicolae Cuke announced on Facebook on Friday. We have already stored 477 million cubic meters of gas more than last year, that is 2.774 billion cubic meters from the total storage capacity of 3.07 billion.

• “Romanians and our economy will have all the gas they need to get through this winter well, whatever the weather.
• Of the 55 million cubic meters required for average daily consumption in winter, almost half is now produced domestically, with the difference covered by volumes in storage.
• Estimates show that there are absolutely no problems in the supply of gas for the population, industry, and the business environment,” said Prime Minister Nikolay Chuke.

Romania fulfilled its European obligation on October 1 to provide 80% of the deposits with the required amount of natural gas.

Energy Minister Virgil Popescu said last week that Romania will have enough natural gas this winter.

“We will have gas this winter. Imports that used to come from the Russian Federation will come from other sources as well. Natural gas continues to flow to Romania. The vast majority is not Russian gas,” he said.

The minister also emphasized that there is a flow of natural gas through the interconnector between Greece and Bulgaria, that is, a vertical corridor that can transport gas from the ports of Azerbaijan and Greece through this corridor to Bulgaria, Romania, and from there to the Republic of Moldova. or to Central Europe was implemented.

According to him, work is currently underway on the transit of these gases from Azerbaijan and the origin of LNG in order to be able to deliver them to Romania.

The EU previously met 80% of its gas storage target, despite Russia’s cuts

The EU has met its goal of filling its gas storage by at least 80% “well before” the November deadline, despite ongoing disruptions to gas supplies from Russia, EU energy chief Kadri Simson said on Wednesday (October 31st). .

In May, the EU set a gas storage target in response to cuts in Russian gas supplies and amid the ongoing energy crisis. The goal was at least 80% by November 1, 2022, and at least 90% by November 1 in subsequent years to have enough gas to survive the winter. Not all EU countries have underground storage facilities. But of those that did, 10 have already exceeded the target of 80%.

Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden exceeded 80%, although it must be said that their storage volume is very different.

Six other countries – Austria, Croatia, Hungary, the Netherlands, Romania and Slovakia – met their interim target on 1 September and are on track to reach the 80% target also on time. (…) And in Austria, despite the reduction of supplies from Russia, tanks continued to be filled last week, the relevant ministry reported on Twitter.

National inventories rose from 61.9% to 65.2% between August 20 and 27, surpassing the interim target of 60% on September 1 and on track to reach the interim target of 70% on October 1.