KIEV, Oct. 21 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the national energy company, said Friday it will hike by 16% prices of natural gas for industrial consumers starting November 1.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – A $500 million loan from Citibank and Deutsche Bank guaranteed by the World Bank will be sent to cover cash gaps of Naftogaz Ukrayiny, Naftogaz Chairman Andriy Kobolev said.

ODESSA, Oct. 23 – Odessa law-enforcement agencies are trying to determine the amount of fuel that belonged to East European Energy Company (VETEK) of businessman Serhiy Kurchenko, arrested in May, stored at Odessa oil refinery and removed from the enterprise.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – The first ship carrying coal from South Africa dropped anchor in the Illichivsk commercial port in the Odessa region on October 23, a source in the Ukrainian Infrastructure Ministry told Interfax.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has started a procedure for convening an extraordinary general meeting of shareholders in public joint-stock company Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchuk oil refinery, Poltava region) to reshuffle the company's supervisory board.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - Ukraine has complained to the World Trade Organization about a decision by Russia to ban imports of fruit and vegetables from the country, the agriculture ministry said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

KIEV, Oct. 21 – Fitch Ratings is keeping the rating of Naftogaz Ukrayiny’s 2014 eurobonds at 'B' because of the sovereign guarantee, the rating agency said in a statement.

ODESSA, Oct. 23 – Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Vilkul has launched in test mode the new Brooklyn-Kyiv LLC grain handling complex at Odessa maritime merchandise port.

KIEV, Oct. 23 - Prista Recycling, a division of Bulgaria's Prista Oil, has begun building a used motor oil recycling plant in the Kiev region town of Borodianka at a cost of more than $60 million, the Environment and Natural Resources Ministry said.

KIEV, Oct. 23 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny has finished 3D seismology on the Pallas zone of the Black Sea shelf, Deputy Chairman Vadym Chuprun said.

"We conducted 2D and 3D seismology. We've finished it, and now it is being interpreted. Next year we'll be ready to drill," he told reporters in Kiev.