KIEV, Sept. 12 - Ukraine after the completion of the 2015/2016 heating season has increased natural gas stockpiles at Ukraine's underground storage facilities by 55.4% or 4.674 billion cubic meters (bcm), Ukrtransgaz reported.

If on April 6 8.438 bcm of gas were in the underground storage facilities, then on September 10 gas stocks amounted to 13.112 bcm.

Average daily pumping to the underground storage facilities in August was 60.7 million cubic meters and on September 10 it was 59.5 million cubic meters.