ZAPORIZHIA, August 2 – Zaporizhia-based Vodokanal utility company is planning to ask Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, who is to visit Dniprovska waterworks No. 1 in Zaporizhia, to allocate UAH 150 million for the modernization of its sewage treatment facilities.

KIEV, August 2 – Kyivenergo, which exploits Kiev's energy complex, has paid off a UAH 742,128,522 debt for natural gas consumed for the production of heat for households, the company reported.

KIEV, Aug. 2 - Ukraine’s national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny will buy a new offshore oil drilling platform to expand development of oil and gas deposits in the Black Sea, an official said Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 1 - Petro Carbo Chem Mukachevo has put into operation a terminal in Zakarpattia for the receipt, storage, and shipment of liquefied hydrocarbon gases and petrochemical products.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – France's Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer law firm will continue protecting Ukraine's interests at the Stockholm arbitration tribunal in 2011 in a dispute with Vanco Prykerchenska Ltd. (British Virgin Islands).

KIEV, Aug. 2 – Ukraine's real GDP growth in 2010 could be 3.8%, and 4.8% in 2011, compared to the fall of 15.1% seen in 2009, according to experts from governmental and nongovernmental analytical centers that took part in a consensus poll in July organized by the Ukrainian Economy Ministry.

KIEV, Aug. 2 - Zaporizhia Ferroalloy Plant, Ukraine’s No. 2 ferroalloy producer, will probably suspend production of silicomanganese this month due to weak demand on world and domestic markets, UkrFA ferroalloy maker association reported Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 2 – It will take about five years and cost UAH 10 billion to reform the housing and utilities sector in Kiev, Deputy head of Kiev City State Administration Oleksandr Mazurchak said.

KIEV, July 30 – Mexican-based Gruma Corporation, one of the leading corn flour and tortilla producers and marketers in the United States, reports it has acquired Altera I and Altera II, the leading producer of corn grits in Cherkasy, Ukraine, for $9 million.

KIEV, July 30 – The decision of the International Monetary Fund to grant Ukraine a $15.15 billion Stand-By Arrangement will be a positive signal for portfolio investors that could help prop up the hryvnia exchange rate, bankers polled by Interfax-Ukraine said.