KIEV, Sept. 27 - Natural gas transit through Ukraine to Europe from January 1 to September 25 increased by 0.4% compared to the same period in 2012, to 59.7 billion cubic meters, Ukrtransgaz said on Friday.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Ukraine and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development have signed a credit agreement worth EUR 200 million to finance the renovation of the hydroelectric power plants of Ukrhydroenergo.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Ukrainian farmers soon will hold protest rallies demanding the cancellation of the grain export duties in effect until the end of 2011, Hennadiy Novikov, head of the Agrarian Union of Ukraine said at the annual food industry forum in Kiev on Thursday.

He said that the union's council made the decision at a meeting held earlier.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Naftogaz Ukrayiny on Thursday signed a preliminary agreement with ExxonMobil Corp for joint development of unconventional hydrocarbons in Ukraine.

This is the third paper signed between the two companies since February, underscoring the interest of the U.S. oil major in tapping resources in Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 28 - Ukrtransnafta, the monopolist in oil transportation, has announced a tender to process about 300,000 tons of Azeri light oil at Ukrainian oil refineries in the fourth quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012.

KHARKIV, Sept. 28 – State enterprise Malyshev plant (Kharkiv) will supply a second batch of armored vehicles to Iraq under a contract by the end of the year, Ukroboronprom Director General Dmytro Salamatin has said.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny and Germany's RWE Dea AG have signed a memorandum of cooperation to study the territory of mutual interest on the Ukrainian Black Sea shelf and increase hydrocarbon extraction in Ukraine, Naftogaz reported.

KIEV, Sept. 29 – The Foxtrot group of companies is planning to challenge the actions of law-enforcement bodies during searches of the group's premises and its warehouses, the co-founder of the group, Valeriy Makovetsky, has said.

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Interpipe Nyzhniodniprovsky Pipe Plant (NTRP), a railway wheel manufacturer working under the KLW brand, has developed and handed over 955 mm railway wheel manufacturing technology to the Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) (Durgapur, India).

KIEV, Sept. 29 - Ukraine plans to move 9 million metric tons of crude oil coming from Venezuela to refineries in Belarus in 2011, Ukrainian transportation and communications minister Kostiantyn Yefimenko said Wednesday.