KIEV, Feb. 1 – The Simferopol-based Chornomornaftogaz state joint-stock company plans to refinance issues of domestic bonds worth UAH 60 million and float eurobonds in 2010 to realize projects to develop the Odeske and Subotinske oil fields.

KREMENCHUK, Feb. 1 - Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk, Poltava region), which runs the Kremenchuk oil refinery, plans to refine 5-6 million tons of oil this year, boosting production 60% to 90% over the almost 3.2 million tons it processed in 2009, company Deputy CEO for production and capital construction Serhiy Kosheliuk told reporters on Monday.

KIEV, Feb. 2 – Oleksandr Melnychenko, the acting head of the Antimonopoly Committee has called on oil market participants to decrease fuel prices to an economically grounded level.

KIEV, Feb. 2 - Ukraine's steel industry boosted finished roll output 20% year-on-year in January to 2.434 million tons, the Industrial Policy Ministry told Interfax.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – Sales of laptops and mobile phones in 2010 could grow by 15-20% in 2010, according to the president of the Unitrade Group, Volodymyr Kolodiuk.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – The total value of the projects of international financial organizations under preparation and realization in Ukraine reached $13.7 billion in January 2010, according to a posting on the Web site of the Ukrainian Economy Ministry.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – Foreign investors have started leaving Ukraine not just because of the country’s economic crisis, but also because of the high level of corruption among Ukrainian officials.

KIEV, Feb. 2 - Ukraine's steel industry reduced finished roll output 35% year-on-year in January to 2 million tons, the Industrial Policy Ministry told Interfax.

Crude steel production plummeted 42% to 2.123 million tons and pig iron fell 38% to 1.867 million tons.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – The products of Lviv-based OJSC Iskra, Ukriane's largest light bulb producer, will become noncompetitive with the new price of natural gas, according to its director general and board chairman, Myron Kostiv.

KIEV, Feb. 3 – UAH700 million is required to develop and start exploitation of the Odessa gas field, Anatoliy Prysiazhniuk, chairman of Chornomornaftogaz, told the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia weekly newspaper.