KYIV, Oct 18 – Yuriy Vitrenko, the Executive Director of Naftogaz Ukrainy, said the company would on November 1 file court claims for more than $11 billion against Gazprom to serve as possible compensation for an end to transit.

KYIV, Oct 18 – Providing opportunities for Ukraine to import from Poland up to 6.6 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas per year requires additional investment in the Polish system, the decision on which will be made after a detailed economic analysis, the Polish gas transmission operator Gaz-System said.

KYIV, Oct 19 – Ukrainian gasoline and diesel fuel retailers are lobbying for a bill that would crack down on illegal gas stations, Leonid Kosianchuk, the Director General of Sun Oil Trade House, said Thursday.

KYIV, Oct 19 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny plans to issue Eurobonds in 2018 following a deal between Ukraine and the International Monetary Fund, Naftogaz head Andriy Kobolev said.

KYIV, Oct 19 – Ukraine is facing unfavorable weather for early spring grain crops during the next 10-12 years, Tetiana Adamenko, the head of the agriculture department of the Ukrainian weather center, said.

KYIV, Oct 18 - Ukraine in January-August 2018 increased consumption of natural gas by 2% (by 400 million cubic meters) compared to the same period in 2017, to 20.8 billion cubic meters.

KYIV, Oct 18 – Ukraine’s growing gasoline prices come in line with world market trends and are not associated with violation of antimonopoly legislation, Valeriy Poliukhovych, the state commissioner of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC), said.

KYIV, Oct 18 – DTEK Energy Holding has signed a second contract with U.S. General Electric to supply equipment for Prymorska wind farm with a total capacity of 200 MW, the press service of the holding has reported.

SOCHI, Oct 18 - Sberbank will seek a new buyer for its Ukrainian subsidiary bank since Belarus' Paritetbank was not acceptable for the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU), Sberbank first deputy head Lev Khasis told journalists on the sidelines of the Finopolis 2018 Forum in Sochi.

KYIV, Oct 19 – Gross production of soybeans in Ukraine in 2018 could be 4.2-4.3 million tons, which is 10% more than in 2017, Regional Director of the Donau Soja Association Oksana Prosolenko has said.