site.btaBulgaria’s Chiren Gas Storage Facility Is 21.64% Full

Bulgaria’s Chiren gas storage facility is 21.64 per cent full as of February 20, according to the Aggregated Gas Storage Inventory. It is fourth from the bottom of the list of EU countries in terms of working gas volume in storage.

It currently has 1.2579 TWh of natural gas. Its injection capacity is 34.10 GWh/day and the withdrawal capacity 40.38 GWh/day. Statistics shows that on January 22, 2022, Chiren was 35.05 per cent full. 

The European gas storage facilities hold 343.7216 TWh and are 31.06 per cent full. 

Portugal’s gas storage inventory is biggest, at 80.88 per cent, and Austria’s is the smallest, at 18.32 per cent. The second smallest is Croatia with 21.34 per cent followed by Belgium, 21.57 per cent, and then Chiren.

Energy expert Martin Vladimirov of the Centre for the Study of Democracy commented for BTA that Europe’s gas storage inventory is at very low level, some 20 per cent less than this time last year. Because of that, there is a real risk for supplies in the month and a half that remain until the end of the hearing season in Europe, if Russia discontinues natural gas export. He, however, does not see this as a likely scenario.