KIEV, Dec. 25 – Cadogan Petroleum Plc, a British oil and gas producer with Ukrainian assets, is to invest $76.2 million (GBP50.8 million) in capital expenditure in 2009 and $56.7 million (GBP37.8 million) in 2010, deferring $179 million (GBP119.3 million) of capital expenditure in total over those two years.

KIEV, Dec. 27 ??“ At their Dec. 23, 2006, general meeting, stockholders in Khartsyzsk pipe plant, which is part of the Metinvest Group, decided to pay about UAH 142 million in dividends.

KIEV, Dec. 28 ??“ Chervona Zirka and Kirovohrad Drawing and Designing Institute Hruntoposivmash jointly with German's Lemken firm plan to start production of the Soliter-12 sowing-machine in 2007.

KIEV, Dec. 28 - Ferrexpo A.G., the key stockholder in Poltava Ore Mining and Processing Mill in Komsomolsk in Poltava region, has announced completed the procedure for the registration of a $275 million credit loan for Poltava ore processor's debt refunding, Ferrexpo reported Wednesday.

KIEV, Dec. 28 - An interdepartmental commission for the organization and implementation of product-sharing agreements (PSA) will soon present its own version of a PSA on the Prikerchensky oil and gas field with Vanco International Limited.

KIEV, Dec. 28 ??“ Germany??™s Deutsche Telecom and France??™s France Telecom, biggest world's telecommunication companies, may take part in privatization of Ukrainian national operator Ukrtelecom.

LUHANSK, Dec. 28 - Stakhanov Ferroalloy Works, the country??™s third-largest producer of ferroalloys, may cease operations as the electricity price is too high for the enterprise, head of the fuel and energy department of the Luhansk regional administration Ihor Tokarev said Friday.

KHARKIV, Dec. 27 ??“ Kharkiv State Aviation Production Amalgamation (KSAPA) will sharply increase exports next year, company Director General Pavlo Naumenko told a press conference in Kharkiv on Friday.

KIEV, Dec. 28 ??“ UkrTransNafta, Ukraine's oil shipping monopoly, plans next month to approve a $115 million project to improve safety at an oil pipeline that pumps Russian crude to Eastern Europe, a Naftogaz Ukrayiny spokesman said Tuesday.

KYIV, Nov 27 – Sales of the omnichannel retailer Foxtrot during Black Friday increased by 65% in hryvnia and by 45% in units of goods compared to the results of last year’s campaign, the press service reported.