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9.0 Industry & Sectors 9.1 Sector news
9.1.1 Oil & gas sector news
Total gas production in Ukraine fell to a 20-year low due to the war. Gas production in Ukraine for 2022 fell by 6% to 18.5bn cubic metres, the lowest production volume in the last 20 years.
The main reason for the reduction in production was the full-scale war. In addition, the occupation of a portion of Ukraine’s territory, particularly the Kharkiv region, hurt gas production in these regions. The country's largest gas production company, Ukrgazvydobuvannya, produced 13.2bn cubic metres last year, which is 3% less than the previous year.
Also, Ukrnafta reduced gas production by 7% to 1bn cubic metres due to aging fields and low investment in gas production.
Private gas producers showed the biggest drop, by 15%, to 4.3bn cubic metres, because their sales market has significantly narrowed, and the export of domestically produced gas has been banned. Due to a sharp drop in income and difficulties with implementation, private companies have practically stopped investment in gas production.
The state gas mining company Ukrgazvydobuvannya, despite the destruction and occupation of part of its production facilities in the east of the country, produced 12.5bn cubic metres of natural gas, which is only 3% less than a year earlier.
Moreover, as the company reported, they managed to drill 47 new wells, almost equal to the previous year's figure. At the same time, the company's drills set two drilling records for at least the last 15 years: monthly and daily penetration.
It also performed 74 hydraulic fracturing operations and set another record, the most significant number of monthly operations by its fleet.
The company also managed to keep the number of other functions at a high level: 191 well overhauls, 486 coiled tubing installation operations, and 2,333 geophysical operations. Also, 141 wells are equipped with mechanized mining systems, almost twice as many as in 2021.
Russia reduced the daily gas transit through Ukraine by another 10%. On January 4, the Russian Federation reduced the daily natural gas transit through the Ukrainian GTS to Europe by another 10%, to 38.4 million cubic metres per day. ExPro analysts calculated that this is the lowest level in the entire history of observations since 1991. Currently, Russia transports natural gas through Ukraine to Slovakia and Moldova. Transit to Moldova remains at about 6 million cubic metres per day. However, transit to Slovakia on January 4 decreased from 36.8 to 32.8 million cubic metres. In general, the volume of Russian gas transit is approximately one-third of the guaranteed 109.6 million
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