KIEV, Oct. 30 - The government on Wednesday approved a production sharing agreement with Chevron to allow the U.S. company to tap shale gas deposits in Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 30 – Ukraine will pay its overdue bill for Russian natural gas supplies before the end of October, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Wednesday.

KIEV, Oct. 31 – Sumy Frunze Machine-Building Science and Production Association (Frunze NPO), part of Konstantin Grigorishin's Energy Standard Group, announced it is to ship nine units of heat-exchange equipment for a gas treatment plant on the Termokarstovoye gas condensate field, which is being developed by Russia's Terneftegaz.

ASTRAKHAN, Oct. 31 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny could find it is required to make advance payments for Russian gas as early as December, assuming the accumulated debt for gas remains unpaid, Gazprom Deputy CEO Valery Golubev told journalists.

KIEV, Oct. 30 – The government of Japan has sent a request for consultations with the government of Ukraine under a WTO agreement on special safeguard measures regarding imports of passenger cars that were introduced by Kiev on April 13.

KIEV, Oct. 31 - Ukraine is in talks with the European Union over modernization of its natural gas pipeline system moving Russian gas to markets in Europe, Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 31 – The opening of the Gulliver office, shopping complex, earlier known as Esplanada, will take place in Kiev before the end of March 2013, and the investment in the completion of the construction project will reach $30-35 million.

KIEV, Oct. 31 – Ukrecoresources, a state-run enterprise, has launched the Ecopet plant producing polyethylene terephtalate flex, with an annual capacity of 5,000 tons, in Sloviansk, the Donetsk region, the company's press service has reported.

KIEV, Oct. 31 – Kiev city will be able to raise a sufficient sum of funds to pay a foreign loan worth $250 million on time, Deputy Head of Kiev City Administration Ruslan Kramarenko has said.

KIEV, Oct. 31 - Ukraine’s largest petrochemical company KarpatNaftokhim, owned by Russian oil producer Lukoil, completed a major two-month upgrade, a company official said Wednesday.