Natural Gas Storage

The total active capacity of Ukrainian UGS facilities is over 30 bcm. These are the largest storage facilities in Europe and the third largest in the world after the U.S. and Russia that attracts gas storage customers, including European customers

Key tasks

Effective management of underground gas storage facilities, accumulation of gas reserves necessary for the uninterrupted passage of heating seasons, as well as development of the gas storage business with customers in Ukraine and abroad.

Subdivisions of the Business Unit are part of JSC "Ukrtransgaz".

The Business Unit manages 11 gas storage facilities located in mainland Ukraine. The portfolio also includes another underground storage facility located in the temporarily occupied territory of Luhansk Region.

Activity types

Ensuring uninterrupted operation of gas storage facilities

The network of UGS facilities is an important element of our energy system. Their steady and uninterrupted operation is necessary for the passing heating seasons, operation of industrial enterprises, fulfilment of obligations towards foreign partners.
Development of gas storage business

Europe's largest capacity and gas market reform create considerable opportunities for Ukrainian UGS facilities to attract foreign customers.This approach allows to commercialise available resources and reinforce the country's energy independence.

Management

Acting General Director of Ukrtransgaz – Storage System Operator of Ukraine

Sergiy Pereloma

From August 2020, holds position of interim acting General Director of Ukrtransgaz – Storage System Operator of Ukraine. In 2014 – 2021, he worked as First Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board of National Joint Stock Company “Naftogaz of Ukraine”.

Prior to that, he headed key areas of business activities in PSC Prominvestbank, Derzhinvest of Ukraine, Ukrtatnafta, Kryvorizhstal and Ukroboronprom.

He graduated from the Institute of International Relations of Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University.