Gazprom Export opens gas storage facility in Czech Republic

Gazprom Export, a division of Russia's top natural gas producer Gazprom, said that its underground gas storage facility in the Czech Republic started operating on Friday.

 

The storage facility, to be operated by Moravia Gas Storage, a joint venture company of the Czech MND Group and Gazprom Export, has active capacity of 456 million cubic metres and withdrawal capacity of 7.6 million cubic metres per day, Gazprom Export said in a statement.


(Reporting by Vladimir Soldatkin and Lidia Kelly; Editing by David Goodman)