MINSK, Oct. 2 - Belarus will try to retain the Ukrainian market if Ukraine signs the Association Agreement with the European Union in November, Prime Minister Mikhail Myasnikovich said at a meeting with President Alexander Lukashenko on Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 2 - Creative Group, one of the largest producers of oils and fats in Ukraine, is discussing the construction of an enterprise in China that will produce fats, margarines and deodorized oil.

KIEV, Oct. 2 – The capacities of the state distilleries in 2014 are enough to produce around 133,000 tons of bioethanol, with 300,000 tons required for the observation of the requirement on the obligatory adding of 5% of bioethanol to all gasoline sold in Ukraine and for production of alternative motor fuel with 30% spirit content.

KIEV, Oct. 2 - The price of natural gas that Ukraine imports from Russia will increase to $410 per 1,000 cubic meters in the fourth quarter, up from about $400/1,000 cu m in the third quarter, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 2 - A vote in the Lviv regional council to approve Chevron's major shale gas extraction project in Ukraine is scheduled on October 3, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 2 – Ukraine will able to fulfill its liabilities on its foreign debts on time, said Olena Scherbakova, the director of the monetary and credit policy department of the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 1 - Asia-Europe Gas Terminal (AEGT) has launched a liquefied gas handling terminal with a capacity of 1 million tons a year in Kerch.

"The terminal will provide handling services for liquefied gas from railway tankers, for further transport by sea to European countries and Turkey," the Crimean Republican Committee on Transport and Communications said in a statement.

KIEV, Oct. 1 – The Cabinet of Ministers has proposed that Parliament grant Naftogaz Ukrayiny, a state monopoly, with UAH 3.9 billion ($490 million) in direct budget financing instead of replenishing its charter capital with OVGZ domestic bonds of the same value in 2012.

KIEV, Oct. 2 – The Cabinet of Ministers has proposed that Parliament allocate UAH 80 million from the 2012 general fund to replenish the charter capital of Nuclear Fuel Concern and buy additionally issued shares of the company.

KIEV, Oct. 2 – Ukraine’s second biggest oil refinery by capacity, owned by Russian oil major TNK-BP, was acquired by an undisclosed investor, Volodymyr Prystiuk, the head of the Luhansk state administration, said Tuesday.