KIEV, August 3 – After the placement of eurobonds worth $2 billion in the second half of July the Finance Ministry has decided to hold auctions to place foreign currency-pegged government domestic loan bonds and will offer only long-term (five- and seven-year) government bonds in hryvnias.

KIEV, Aug. 3 - Ukraine’s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny produced 113,000 barrels of crude oil from deposits in Egypt in the second quarter of 2012, up 10.8% from 102,000 barrels in the first quarter, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry said in a statement Friday.

KIEV, Aug. 3 - Russian oil major Lukoil and a pool of companies led by ExxonMobil have submitted bids seeking to develop Skifske deepwater natural gas field in Ukraine, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Friday.

KIEV, Aug. 3 - The Cabinet of Ministers has published the draft Tax Code in the Uriadovy Kurier newspaper for public discussion.

The document defines the major state and local taxes and fees, as well as the principles of their administration.

KIEV, Aug. 4 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry will issue bonds to securitize delayed value-added tax refunds (VAT bonds) to the tune of about UAH 16 billion in three or four tranches within August, First Deputy Finance Minister Vadym Kopylov said.

SIMFEROPOL, Aug. 5 – The Ukrainian cabinet has forbidden Crimea to issue domestic loan bonds worth UAH 400 million.

Crimean Prime Minister Vasyl Dzharty told the press in Simferopol on Wednesday that the decision was made due to a requirement of the International Monetary Fund.

KIEV, Aug. 5 - KrasnodonVuhillya, which owns seven coal mines in the Luhansk region, received 598,000 Euros from selling Emission Reduction Units (ERU’s) under the Kyoto Protocol, the company reported Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – Ten companies have applied to the State Property Fund to take part in a tender to privatize Odessa Port-Side Plant, the acting head of the fund, Dmytro Parfenenko, said at an online conference.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – Ukrainian state enterprise Zorya-Mashproekt (Mykolaiv) will supply energy equipment for the IGAT-7 gas pipeline, which is being built by Iran, the company told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 5 – Turboatom, Ukraine's large turbine producer, on August 3 and August 4 delivered equipment for the first water turbine of the La Eska hydro power plant (Mexico) worth over UAH 18 million as a part of the contract on the supply of equipment for the plant.