KIEV, Nov. 20 - Ukraine plans to build a 2.5 million metric ton petroleum product terminal near the port of Odessa on the Black Sea, according to plans released by the state oil shipper UkrTransNafta on Tuesday.

KIEV, Nov. 20 - Ukraine’s coal reserves rose 3% over the past seven days to 1.871 million mt as of Monday, underscoring accelerated domestic supplies and imports from South Africa and Poland.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – DTEK energy holding in January-September 2016 increased coal production by 4.1% year-over-year, to 22.31 million tons.

The company said in a press release that run-of-mine coal over the period grew by 16.9%, to 17.135 million tons and concentrate production rose by 20.8%, to 10.776 million tons.

KIEV, Nov. 18 - Ukraine in January-October 2016 increased exports of electricity by 5.8% (by 176.5 million kWh) compared to the same period in 2015, to 3.204 billion kWh, a source in the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 21 – Fitch Ratings on November 18 upgraded the City of Kiev's Long-Term Foreign and Local Currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) to 'B-' from 'CC', Fitch said in a statement.

KIEV, Nov. 18 – Ukraine’s grain output will increase to 64 million metric tons in the 2016-2017 season, the largest grain harvest since the country has gained independence in 1991, Agriculture Minister Taras Kutoviy said Friday.

KIEV, Nov. 21 - Ukraine is interested in joining a LNG project in Croatia in order to diversify imports of gas, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said Monday.

KIEV, Nov. 21 - Ukraine will probably increase shipments of Russian natural gas to markets in Europe by 19% on the year to 80 billion cubic meters in 2016, the state gas shipper UkrTransGaz reported Monday.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 19 – Ukraine's real gross domestic product in January-October 2013 decreased by 0.6%, but the government hopes that there will still be slight growth in GDP over the full 12 months of this year, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov has said.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 20 - Ukraine lost approximately 25% of its trade with the CIS countries this year and these are considerable economic losses for the country, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov said.