KIEV, Nov. 2 - Ukraine plans to increase gas transit to Europe and CIS countries by 9.6% to 105 billion cubic meters in 2010, the chairman of Naftogaz Ukrayiny's executive board, Yevhen Bakulin, told journalists in Kiev on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 2 – Ukraine has prepared well for a visit by a mission of the International Monetary Fund due to arrive in Kiev on Tuesday for the first review of the stand-by arrangement, Finance Minister Fedir Yaroshenko said.

KIEV, Nov. 3 – A project to build a tanker fleet to service a liquefied natural gas terminal (LNG terminal) will start after a feasibility study on the LNG terminal construction is developed, project curator Petro Miroshnykov told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 3 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny assesses the cost of the construction of a liquefied gas terminal with a capacity of 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas per year at some $2.5 billion, according to Naftogaz Deputy Chairman Vadym Chuprun.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - Ukraine is in talks with natural gas producers from North Africa, Middle East and Azerbaijan as main suppliers for its future liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal near Odessa, a senior official said.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - Most of Ukraine's steel majors again reduced finished roll production considerably in January-October, although the decline in the industry still seems to be slowing.

MOSCOW, Nov. 3 – Large Russian oil companies –Rosneft, Lukoil, Surgutneftegaz, Gazprom Neft and TNK-BP – have sent a letter to the government asking it to prolong an intergovernmental agreement on duty-free pipe imports with Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 2 - The Transport and Communications Ministry is taking measures to prevent the spread of viral diseases around Ukraine.

As the Transport Ministry reported, disinfection is being carried out in airports, railway stations, marine passenger terminals, riverboat stations and bus terminals.

MOSCOW, Nov. 2 - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services has revised its outlook on Ukraine to stable from positive.

The agency affirmed the 'CCC+/C' long- and short-term foreign currency sovereign credit ratings, the 'B-/C' long- and short-term local currency ratings, and the 'uaBBB' Ukraine national scale ratings.

KIEV, Nov. 3 - Most Ukrainian mining companies reduced iron ore production significantly in January-October.

Poltava Mining, the core asset of the London-listed Ferrexpo plc, cut commercial pellet production from its own feedstock and under tolling arrangements tentatively 8.3% year-on-year in January-October to 7.202 million tons, Ferrexpo said in a press release.