KIEV, Sept. 25 – National energy company Ukrenergo plans by late 2009 to sign a credit agreement worth EUR300 million with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank to build the Zaporizhia NPP-Kakhovska substation 750 kV power transmission line, the acting head of Ukrenergo, Kostiantyn Uschakovsky, said on Thursday.

KIEV, Sept. 25 - Ukrainian national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny is unlikely to conclude its debt restructuring on time, according to analysts surveyed by Interfax.

The analysts also said Naftogaz's offer to replace $500 million in eurobonds maturing on Sept. 30, 2009 with state-guaranteed bonds maturing in 2014 was unlikely to satisfy creditors.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to start drilling at oil fields in Egypt and Libya in 2007, the company's chairman, Yevhen Bakulin, said in Lviv on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - Knauf Insulation Ukraine plans by the end of 2008 to build a plant in Fastiv in Kiev region to produce construction materials, General Director of Knauf Gypsum Kiev Oleksandr Havrysh told Interfax-Ukraine during a ceremony devoted to the opening of a dry construction system laboratory at Kiev National Construction and Architecture University on Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept 27 - The National Bank of Ukraine has cancelled the introduction of restrictions Oct. 19 on interest rates on foreign borrowing for residents of Ukraine, First Deputy Chairman of the National Bank Anatoliy Shapovalov said, citing a bank decision.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – Viktor Pinchuk, one of the wealthiest men in Ukraine, has rearranged his business empire to streamline management over his $10 billion assets throughout Ukraine, from steel pipe making to media, company officials said.

KIEV, Sept. 27 – The price of natural gas that Russia will charge Ukraine next year will depend on the government to be formed after the Sept. 30 election, Viktor Chernomyrdin, the Russian ambassador to Ukraine, said.

KIEV, Sept. 26 ??“ The state's debt on value-added tax (VAT) reimbursement to Lukor and KarpatNaftoKhim Ltd. (both based in Kalush in Ivano-Frankivsk region) could grow to UAH90 million by the end of September, according to Rostyslav Kulyk, Lukor's chief accountant.

KIEV, Sept. 26 - The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) announced it has signed an agreement with the state-owned Ukrainian Export-Import Bank (Ukreximbank) on a loan for the Ukrainian bank that could total up to 140 million yen.

KIEV, Sept. 26 ??“ Kiev Economic Court has rejected an appeal by the State Property Fund against Prydniprovia industrial and financial consortium to return a bare majority stake in Nikopol Ferroalloy Plant in Dnipropetrovsk region, and fully satisfied a counter-claim by the consortium against the fund to recognize Prydniprovia as the fair buyer of the plant.