KIEV, Aug. 26 - Ukraine’s state-owned oil and gas company ChornomorNaftoGaz announced a tender to buy a new self-elevating offshore drilling rig to expand development of oil and gas deposits in the Black Sea.

KIEV, Aug. 27 - UkrAvto Corporation, the organizer of the fifth Stolychne Auto Show, to be held in a large dealer center at Stolychne Shose from Sept. 12 to Sept. 14 this year, expects at least 500,000 visitors. In 2007, over 500,000 visitors turned up.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – A tender to sell Kiev-based Business Standard Bank (earlier TAS-Businessbank) has been prolonged until the end of August, Serhiy Tihipko, the end beneficiary of the bank, has said.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – Taiwan's Archasia Company is in court defending its right to reconstruct the Olympiysky National Sports Complex, the company's office in Ukraine announced, according to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 28 - Ukraine's steel industry raised exports 7.9% or 1.2 million tons year-on-year in the first half of 2008 to 15.9 million tons, Deputy Industrial Policy Minister Serhiy Hryschenko said at a conference of steel industry bosses chaired by Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

KIEV, Aug. 27 – Ukraine's state direct and guaranteed debt in July grew by 1.49%, or $231 million, to $15.743 billion, the Finance Ministry reported.

KIEV, Aug. 27 – The owners of Halychyna oil refinery plan to invest $700 million into the modernization of the enterprise by 2011.

KIEV, Aug. 27 – Lysychansk oil refinery, run by LINIK, in Luhansk region, has restarted all processing plants after halting them on Aug. 14 because of a break in the power supply, TNK-BP Ukraine Ltd. said on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – The management system in the coal sector is inefficient, President Viktor Yushchenko told the press in Novovolynsk in Volyn region.

He said that, unfortunately, new mines rarely open in Ukraine and coal extraction is falling.

He said that there is no extensive technical upgrade of the sector.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – The national Naftogaz Ukrayiny has denied that its deferred tax payments, which have been approved by the cabinet, will lead to a shortfall in revenues to the social part of the national budget of Ukraine, the company said on Monday.