KIEV, Aug. 28 – A production sharing agreement between the state of Ukraine, Chevron Ukraine B.V. and Nadra Oleska LLC on the Oleska deposit (Ivano-Frankivsk and Lviv regions) will be approved by Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk Regional Councils in September, predicts Energy and Coal Industry Minister Eduard Stavytsky.

KIEV, Aug. 28 - Ukraine and Gazprom have agreed on plans for the fall and winter period, the press service to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yuriy Boyko said after talks with Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller on Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – Coal mines under management of the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry lost UAH 8.39 billion in January-July, up 34.2% year-over-year.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – The progress on privatizing banks that were bailed out by the state's anti-crisis program depends on the state of the market, Tetiana Sysoyeva, director of the financial policy department at the Finance Ministry.

KIEV, Aug. 28 - Gas consumption in Ukraine decreased by 7.3% year-over-year in January-July, or by 2.602 billion cubic meters (bcm), to 32.96 bcm, the country's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry said in a statement.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – An undisclosed Russian company has acquired a large stake in a Ukrainian ferroalloy plant and become a co-investor in the renovation of the plant, according to DLA Piper, a legal advisor for the Russian company in the acquisition.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – The announcement of tenders to sell controlling stakes in power generation companies Centrenergo (53.289%) and Donbassenergo (60.773%) – has been rescheduled from August to December.

KIEV, Aug. 29 - The implementation of the first five projects replacing natural gas with domestically produced coal will enable Ukraine to cut its gas imports by over 3 billion cubic meters and save around $1.2 billion annually, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov told the government on Wednesday.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – Ukraine hopes to increase quotas for the duty-free supplies of pipe to Customs Union member countries (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan) to 320,000 tons in 2013, according to Valeriy Muntiyan, the government envoy for cooperation with Russia, the CIS, EurAsEC and other regional associations.

KIEV, Aug. 29 – The Ukrainian Sich-2 earth observation satellite, which was put into a geostationary orbit by Dnepr launch vehicle on August 17 from a Russian launch base, has successfully conducted its first scheduled survey of the Earth's surface.