KIEV, Oct. 1 – UkrTransNafta, Ukraine's oil transport system operator, plans to increase oil pumping in Ukraine's pipeline system by almost 16% in 2007 compared to 2006 – to 52 million tons.

KIEV, Oct. 1 – The national nuclear energy generating company EnergoAtom plans to build in Bolhrad, Odessa region, a combined cycle electric generating plant with a generating capacity of 30-50 megawatts and heating power capacity of 17 Gcal/h, at an estimated cost of UAH 291.103 million.

KIEV, Oct. 1 - Erste Group plans to invest EUR400 million into the development of the banking business in Ukraine by 2010, Bank der oesterreichischen Sparkassen AG Board Chairman and Director General Andreas Treichl has said in an interview with Investhazeta newspaper.

KIEV, Sept. 28 ??“ Mittal Steel Kryviy Rih in Dnipropetrovsk region from Oct. 1 will increase the price of 8-millimeter, 10-millimeter and 12-milimerter steel reinforcement by $50 per ton, and 14-millimeter and 16-millimeter steel reinforcement by $35 per ton, the exports director and the head of the department of foreign economic relations in the company, Andriy Kytytsia told Interfax-Ukraine.

LVIV, Sept. 28 ??“ LvivTransGaz, the department for gas pipelines, and a part of UkrTransGaz, in 2007 plans to invest UAH450 million into the development of Ukraine's gas transportation system, LvivTransGaz Director Mykhailo Derkach told the press in Lviv.

KIEV, Sept. 28 ??“ UkrNafta on Sept. 27 sold all of the 208.86 million cubic meters of natural gas it put up for sale at an auction in Kiev, which was organized by the Ukrainian Agrarian Exchange.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - The National Bank of Ukraine bought $438 million on the interbank market in September, which allowed it to increase its gold and foreign currency reserves to more than $19 billion, NBU First Deputy Chairman Anatoly Shapovalov said.

KIEV, Sept. 28 ??“ The national nuclear energy generating company EnergoAtom, the nuclear power plant operator in Ukraine, is preparing its water-cooled reactors to operate in maneuver mode, according to EnergoAtom First Vice President and Technical Director Yuriy Kovrizhkin.

KIEV, Sept. 29 ??“ The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development correlates the level of Ukraine's investment attractiveness with the authorities' attitude to Mittal Steel as a large investor.

KYIV, Aug 31 – The gas transmission system (GTS) and underground gas storages (UGS) of Ukraine are ready to operate under conditions of zero transit, the Ministry of Energy announced, citing a stress test initiated by it.