MOSCOW, Sept. 14 - Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller believes that oil prices may once again rise above $100 per barrel due to speculation in futures contracts, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Speaking at the Valdai Club, Miller said he was expressing his personal opinion and that Gazprom uses the government's oil price forecasts in its planning.

KIEV, Sept. 14 – The financing of the Ukrainian Armed Forces at this year's level will destroy the Ukrainian army, the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has said.

KIEV, Sept. 12 – The major cause for the decline in Ukraine's industrial output in August was the 11.6% fall in metallurgical output, according to Concorde Capital investment company.

KIEV, Sept. 12 - Ukraine’s second-largest oil refinery, Linos, owned by Russian oil major TNK-BP, said Friday it needs to invest $80 million to upgrade equipment to be able to produce gasoline and diesel fuel meeting the Euro-4 standard.

KIEV, Sept. 12 - Ukrainian steel companies reduced daily output of iron ore and steel by about 14% in September in reaction to weaker demand on world markets, a source at MetallurgProm, a steelmaker association, said Friday.

LVIV, Sept. 11 – Kazakhstan is holding negotiations on the construction of a gas-fired power plant in the west of Ukraine, Kazakh Ambassador to Ukraine Amangeldy Zhumabaev said ahead of the Ukrainian-Kazakh business forum, which is to open in Lviv on Sept. 12.

MOSCOW, Sept. 11 - The Evraz Group has closed the second stage in the acquisition of a number of Ukraine-based assets, the Russian steel company said.

KIEV, Sept. 11 – Industrial production in Ukraine will pick up in the fall of 2008, Viktoria Bezverkha, an analyst at Millennium Capital Investment Company, has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 12 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny forecasts its revenues from the transit of Russian OAO Gazprom's natural gas across Ukraine's territory may total $1.618 billion, which will be 8.3%, or $124 million, up on 2007, the Ukrainian company said.

KIEV, Sept. 13 ??“ Swedish companies Capital Oil (Stockholm) and Sadkora Energy AB (Halsingborg) have signed an agreement with BohorodchanyNaftogaz (a daughter company of the national Nadra Ukrayiny) on developing the Maidan and Kubash oil deposits in Ivano-Frankivsk region.