MOSCOW, Oct. 6 – The Anglo-Dutch oil company Shell has shown interest in buying the gas assets of Britain's Regal Petroleum in Ukraine, according to The Financial Times.

KIEV, Oct. 6 – State Export-Import Bank (Ukreximbank) on Oct. 1 became a member of the Prague Club, a subdivision of the Berne Union, the leading association for export credit and investment insurance worldwide, the bank announced.

KIEV, Oct. 6 - Ukrainian steel companies will reduce production of key steel products by at least 1% in 2008 due to the market downturn, an official at the Industrial Policy Ministry told Interfax.

He said a substantial decline in output began in August, and the situation deteriorated in September.

KIEV, Oct. 6 – Ukraine’s steel sector, the backbone of the country’s economy, is in “critical” shape and urgent measures are needed to help the industry weather rapidly falling demand, major sector companies warned Monday.

KIEV, Oct. 6 – The hryvnia plummeted against the U.S. dollar on Monday, effectively breaching the trading band that the National Bank of Ukraine had set for this year and next, underscoring extremely strong downward pressure.

LVIV, Oct. 6 ??“ Altkom, a Donetsk-based construction firm, has won a tender for the construction of a highway running from Krakowec, on the border with Poland, to Lviv, said Rostyslav Soroka, the head of Lviv Regional Administration's industrial policy department.

KIEV, Oct. 6 - Electricite de France (EDF) will lead a consortium of western companies that will advise Ukraine on nuclear power sector safety, according to an agreement signed Thursday.

KYIV, Sept 4 – Energoatom denies any accidents at the Pivdennoukrainsk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), explaining its unloading by 33% by issues in the work due to damage to the lines of NPC Ukrenergo.

KYIV, Sept 4 – It is planned to establish hundreds of small generation facilities that will be less vulnerable to Russian terrorism, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said during a roundtable discussion on the state of the energy sector and preparations for the heating season.