Since the heating season started on October 13, 2025, European Union countries have withdrawn more than 69 billion cubic meters of gas from storages.
“Elchi” reports that this was noted in the data of the European Gas Infrastructure Operators Association (Gas Infrastructure Europe).
It was stated that the net withdrawal from storages exceeded 60 billion cubic meters, which is 5.7 billion cubic meters more than the volume injected into storages in summer. Already by mid-February, EU countries had completely depleted the gas reserves they accumulated in summer and started using reserves remaining from previous years.
In the Netherlands, one of the leading countries in Europe by gas storage capacity, reserves dropped to 5.85% as of March 25. This is the lowest indicator observed since 2011.
In other leading countries by gas storage capacity, the dynamics of reserves are different. In Germany, storages are 22.4% full, and in France, 22.1% full, and both countries have already started injecting gas. Other countries continue to use reserves: in Austria, storages are 35.6% full, and in Italy, 43.9% full.
In Slovakia, the storage fill level is 23.6%, in Hungary 33.1%, in the Czech Republic 29.2%, in Romania 25.4%, in Bulgaria 35.5%, in Belgium 22.5%, in Denmark 33.5%, in Latvia 22.2%, and in Croatia 15.8%.