Current daily gas production of "Gazprom" falls below the lowest level of the decade due to the cessation of gas supplies to Ukraine.

Current daily gas production of "Gazprom" has fallen to below the lowest levels of the decade due to the cessation of gas supplies to Ukraine and the decline in exports to non-CIS countries after a warm winter.

As shown in the data of Central Dispatch Department of the Fuel and Energy Sector, on July 14th, 2014 "Gazprom" has extracted only 882.8 million cubic meters of gas. In the past, the 2013 annual minimum production was fixed at 1,044.5 billion cubic meters, and within the last five years (the period of the Gas Information Agency observation) the minimum was registered in 2009 - 891.7 million cubic meters.

On June 16th "Gazprom" moved the Ukraine to the prepay system – i.e. it stopped supplying gas to "Naftogaz of the Ukraine". A sharp (about 100 million cubic meters) decrease in deliveries was smoothed by the decrease in the production at 33 million cubic meters a day, according to the Central Dispatch Department, and the growth of gas injection into the underground storages Russia in amount of approximately 65 million cubic meters (primarily in Russia's largest North Stavropol UGS - 23 million cubic meters).