KIEV, Aug. 9 – Experts predict that a consortium of ExxonMobil Exploration and Production Ukraine B.V., British-Dutch Shell, Petrom (Romania, a subsidiary of Austria's OMV) and state-owned Nadra Ukrayiny will win a tender to sign a production sharing agreement for the Skifske oil and gas field on the Black Sea shelf.

KIEV, Aug. 9 - Qatar has agreed to supply liquefied natural gas to Ukraine, according to a memorandum signed between the two governments and posted by Ukrainian Parliament’s website on Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 9 – Austria's Activ Solar is planning by late 2011 to bring the capacity of its solar power plant in Okhotnykove (Crimea) to 80 megawatts, the company announced.

KIEV, Aug. 9 – The Ukrainian Exchange's UX Index, which lost 8.28% on Monday, on Tuesday had plunged by another 10% an hour after the start of trading, to 1755.93 points.

ODESSA, Aug. 9 – Stalkanat-Silur (Odessa) is fighting an illegal seizure of the company, according to Volodymyr Nemyrovsky, the chairman of the company's supervisory board.

KIEV, Aug. 8 – A law which revises state land market regulations and lifts a ban on land sales was published in the Holos Ukrayiny newspaper on Saturday.

The document takes effect from January 1, 2012, apart from several clauses.

KIEV, Aug. 9 – A new agreement on air communications between Israel and Ukraine foresees an increase in the number of flights between the countries from 28 to 42 per week and the number of regular carriers from two to three from each country, Israeli Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov said.

KIEV, Aug. 9 – EnergoAtom plans to raise up to EUR 1 billion from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Euratom, European Union's nuclear energy agency, to realize a program on boosting safety of Ukrainian nuclear power plants, the company reported on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 9 – The National Bank of Ukraine on Monday cut its key interest rate for the third time since June, citing lower-than-expected inflation and a greater influx of hard currency into the country.

KIEV, Aug. 6 – Ukraine's monetary base in July expanded by 1.9%, to UAH 223.8 billion, while its monetary stock grew by 3.4%, to UAH 551.7 billion, the National Bank of Ukraine reported on its official Web site.