KIEV, July 2 - State Enterprise Gas Turbine Scientific Production Complex Zorya-Mashproekt (Mykolaiv) will supply a next batch of energy equipment in the interests of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the press service of the enterprise has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, July 2 – The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund will shortly consider the 2012 Article IV Consultation (the fulfillment of foreign currency regime obligations) on Ukraine.

KIEV, July 2 - Ukraine’s largest privately-owned coalmining and power generating company, DTEK, acquired three coal mines and a coal processing plant in Russia, the company said in a statement Monday.

KIEV, July 2 - Ukraine plans within months to begin modernization of its second major natural gas pipeline shipping Russian gas to markets in the European Union, Naftogaz Ukrayiny national energy company reported Monday.

KIEV, July 2 – Ukraine’s Agricultural Policy and Food Ministry and China’s Export-Import Bank have signed a memorandum of cooperation, which allows Ukraine to raise $3 billion for the development of its agriculture.

KIEV, July 2 - Ukraine will convert the remaining half of its $2 billion debt to VTB into eurobonds, VTB Chairman Andrei Kostin told the press in Kiev.

VTB allocated a six-month bridge loan to Ukraine in June 2010 (ahead of sovereign eurobond placement and receipt of the first tranche of an IMF loan) totaling $2 billion at 6.7% per annum. Later VTB passed Ukrainian loan rights to VTB Capital. Payments were due in June 2012 as the six-month loan was extended three times to a total of 1.5 years.

KIEV, July 2 - The IMF is still waiting for Ukraine to fulfill previously agreed measures for the resumption of the stand-by lending program, said Gerry Rice, director of the IMF External Relations Department.

KIEV, July 2 – The number of unprofitable Ukrainian banks grew in Q2, which requires changing the orientation of the control work of tax bodies, according to Tetiana Sysoyeva, the director of the department overseeing financial institutions and operations in external economic activity at the STAU.

KIEV, July 2 – The Ukrainian cabinet has approved state guarantees for municipal heat supply companies to raise up to UAH3. 8 billion from Oschadbank to pay their debts for natural gas consumed in 2009.

This year's procedure for the issue of state guarantees to economic entities that generate heat energy for households and budget organizations was approved in cabinet resolution No. 644 of June 22, 2009.

KIEV, June 30 – Kiev-based Liko-Holding Ltd. plans to build two waste recycling plants near waste dumps near Velyki Dmitrovychy (Kiev region) and Troyeschyna District in Kiev, the Delo newspaper reported on Tuesday, referring to Liko-Holding's honorary president and Regions Party MP, Ihor Lysov.