According to Gas Infrastructure Europe, working gas inventories contained in Europe’s underground gas storage facilities amounted to 48.6 billion cubic meters as of May 31. This figure is 1.5 times (21.8 billion cubic meters) less than on the same day in 2024.
At the same time, in May, a total of 8.9 billion cubic meters of gas were injected into European UGS facilities, which is 1.1 billion cubic meters less than the average for this month over the previous ten years (the 2015–2024 seasons).
To fill Europe’s UGS facilities to at least the target level of 90 per cent by November 1, 2025, European operators will have to inject 41.9 billion cubic meters of gas in the next five months. It means that they are to inject 1.5 times more gas than in the same period of last year.
Thus, the gas injection situation at European UGS facilities is becoming increasingly tense. To reach said target level, European operators are to ramp up their injection rates, and they will have to do it during the scheduled repair operations to be performed on the gas infrastructure of Europe in summer.
