DONETSK, Nov. 20 - Donbas Fuel Energy Company (DTEK) plans to invest $380 million in 2007-2012 into the upgrade and development of the Zuyevskaya, Kurakhovskaya and Luganskaya thermal power plants, DTEK Director for Generation and Distribution Garry Levesley has said.

DONETSK, Nov. 20 - Greater safety measures have been put in place at all Ukrainian coal mines exposed to the risk of methane outbursts, Serhiy Storchak, chairman of the Ukrainian State Committee for Industrial and Occupational Safety and Mining Supervision, said in Donetsk on Tuesday.

MOSCOW, Nov. 17 ??“ Russia and Ukraine are in talks on the possibility of raising Russian investments under projects for the production of uranium in Ukraine, head of the Ukrainian EnergoAtom nuclear power generation company Andriy Derkach told reporters in Moscow on Friday, following talks with Rosatom and OAO TVEL.

KIEV, Nov. 20 - Siemens AG Concern (Germany), one of the world's largest telecommunications equipment producers, finished the 2005/2006 fiscal year on Sept. 30 with an increase its sales of 81%, to EUR 369 million, while its order portfolio increased by 113% and reached a EUR 471 million record, according to the company financial report for the period sent to Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Nov. 20 ??“ UkrNafta, Ukraine's largest oil producer, will in the middle of December announce the results of a tender to select a general contractor to build the first part of the Hamaliyivsky gas processing plant in Poltava region and to upgrade the Pasychniansky gas processing plant in Ivano-Frankivsk region.

MOSCOW, Nov. 20 - The Swiss trader RosUkrEnergo AG, in which Russia's Gazprom has a 50% stake, signed a three-year contract on Friday to supply gas to Polish gas monopoly PGNiG in 2007-2009.

A source in RosUkrEnergo told Interfax that, according to the document, the supplies would amount to 2.5 billion cubic meters of gas per year. This will account for about one fifth of Polish gas supplies.

KIEV, Nov. 20 ??“ The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMC) at the request of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC), will check the activities of CJSC UkrGaz-Energo to establish whether the company is a monopolist on the market, according to NSDC Secretary Vitaliy Haiduk.

KIEV, Nov. 18 ??“ Eurocar, plans to produce 128,000 cars of the Skoda, Volkswagen, and Audi makes in 2005-2010.

KIEV, Nov. 18 ??“ A Poltava region court ruling may force the British firm Regal Petroleum Corporation Limited to return five out of the eight wells it uses to Nadra Ukrayiny, a state-owned company.

KYIV, Oct 18 – Ukrzaliznytsia has already laid half the distance of wide tracks, which is part of the base preparation for the implementation of the narrow European track project in the Chop-Uzhgorod direction.