Natural gas reserves in Germany's underground storage have fallen by 30%, according to data on Gas Infrastructure Europe, writes TACC. This is the first time in history that this has happened so early in February. Germany is one of the largest economies in Europe, as well as the continent's largest total gas storage capacity.
Gas reserves in Germany's underground storage facilities fell to 29.12%, according to official data as of February 4.
Other European countries, which after Germany have the largest gas storage capacity, are also actively They are pumping out all the stored blue fuel. Thus, the occupancy rate of gas storage facilities in France is currently only 28.5%, in Austria - 43.1%, in Italy - 55.1%, and in the Netherlands - 22.4%. According to the data, of the five European countries with the largest gas storage capacity, the highest gas storage capacity was in Italy at the beginning of February, and the lowest in the Netherlands.
Other EU countries with relatively large gas storage capacity are also actively withdrawing the blue fuel, so that at the beginning of February, The occupancy rate of the facilities is: in Slovakia - 39.1%, in Hungary - 41.4%, in the Czech Republic - 44.3%, in Romania - 48%, in Bulgaria - 52%, in Belgium - 29.8%, in Denmark - 34.6%, in Latvia - 27.3% and in Croatia - 19.1%. Of the 9 countries mentioned, our country currently has the highest natural gas reserves, while Croatia has the lowest.
ΠThe average season of active gas extraction from European underground storages ends on March 28, 2025, when the total volume of reserves at that time was 33.57% of the volume of gas storages.
To Currently, European gas storage facilities as a whole are 38.48% full - which is 16.74 percentage points lower than the average value on this date for the last 5 years. Last year at the same time, the occupancy rate was 51.3%.
Since the start of the current heating season in Europe, which officially began on October 13, 2025, the EC countries have withdrawn a total of about 54 billion cubic meters of gas from the storage facilities. Thus, net withdrawals (the total amount withdrawn in excess of the amount of gas pumped into the pipelines during the summer) exceeded a total of 49 bhp ĸyvičecĸi metpa gas, or 90% of the pumped volume during the summer.
And in January 2026, European cities set a new limit for the import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) for overnight, against the background of (major) cooling, according to data from Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), writes TACC.
On January 14, LNG flows from European terminals into the EC gas transmission system reached 486 million cubic meters, which is the highest level of demand in the entire history of observation. ΠThe previous record for the largest daily LNG import was set in June 2025.