Source: Bulgartransgas EAD - DVGW

Lessons from the Crisis – January 2009
On 06.01.2009 natural gas supplies through Ukraine were stopped which resulted in:
introduction of a restrictive regime and daily consumption decrease from 12.5
mcm/d to 5.7-6.2 mcm/d;
gas supply only to residential users, public-administrative users (schools,
kindergartens, hospitals, etc.) and industrial users with continuous
production;
maximum daily production from UGS – Chiren – 4.3 mcm/d;
use of accumulated capacity of gas pipelines;
creation of technical conditions for receipt of 2.5 mcm/d through reverse
operation of the transit pipeline to Greece.
The experts from Bulgartransgaz, the subsidiaries of Overgas Inc., Citigas and others,
ensured an emergency-free operation of the gas supply system in the conditions of strict
restrictive regime.