KYIV, March 23 - Ukraine increased its gross natural gas consumption by 5.5% on the year to 29.84 billion cubic meters in 2020, according to the data of the quarterly monitoring of the National Energy and Utilities Regulatory Commission (NEURC).

In the fourth quarter of 2020 consumption increased by 9.3% compared with October-December 2019, to 9.83 billion cubic meters. Consumption in the third quarter amounted to 4.35 billion cubic meters, in the second - 4.8 billion cubic meters, in the first quarter - 10.86 billion cubic meters.