KYIV, May 20 – Ukrtransnafta hopes to sign a new ten-year transit contract with PJSC Transneft in June 2019, the director general of the Ukrainian company, Mykola Havrylenko, said.

KYIV, May 20 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny is planning to increase its production of liquefied petroleum gas by 40-50%, to 240,000 tons (up from 160,000-165,000 tons in recent years), the head of the group's oil division, Mykola Havrylenko, said.

KYIV, May 20 – Ukrtransgaz has already signed agreements for the storage of natural gas with 23 foreign companies, within which around 360 million cubic meters (mcm) of gas are stored in the underground gas storage facilities (UGS), Ukrtransgaz director for strategy and business development Serhiy Makohon said on Facebook.

KYIV, May 20 – In January-April 2019, the Ukrainian coking plants reduced the production of metallurgical coke by 6% moisture by 3% compared to the same period last year, to 3.503 million tons.

DNIPRO, May 18 – The Digital Transformation of Kyiv campaign led by Google Ukraine has become the 11th digitalization event after Lviv and nine more regions, Google Ukraine Head Dmytro Sholomko said on Friday.

KYIV, May 21 – The number of investment deals with Ukrainian innovative companies grew by 2.3% in 2017, to 89 compared with 2016.

KYIV, May 21 – The change of the situation on the foreign capital market at the end of April and the further worsening in May temporarily weakened the potential of Ukrainian issuers to carry out loan transactions, Managing Partner of ICU Investment Group Makar Paseniuk said.

KYIV, May 21 – Russia's gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 is a geopolitical project of the Kremlin, which has nothing to do with economic and business interests, but aims to destroy the unity of Europe, President Petro Poroshenko said.

KYIV, May 18 – Some 11 gas trading companies have shown their interest to transportation of gas from Romania to Ukraine using the Trans-Balkan pipeline, the press service of public joint-stock company Ukrtransgaz has reported after the assessment of market demand for this route.

KYIV, May 18 – The state railroad company Ukrzaliznytsia said the situation with the transportation of metallurgical freight is under control and has come to an understanding with steelmakers about the coordination of issues related to production, logistics and communication.