KYIV, Dec 18 - Ukraine expects to attract more than UAH 50 billion in hydrocarbon production within 12 production sharing agreements (PSA), Minister of Energy and Coal Industry Ihor Nasalyk has said.

KYIV, Dec 18 - The Cabinet of Ministers approved the transfer of 90% stake in Nadra Yuzivska LLC in the production sharing agreement (PSA) on Yuzivska shale gas deposit (Kharkiv and Donetsk regions) to Yuzgaz B.V. (the Netherlands) with the investor and operator of the project represented by the Slovak company Nafta.

KYIV, Dec 18 – Ukraine's Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has proposed to switch to measuring and balancing of natural gas on the market in thermal units, or kilowatt-hours instead of cubic meters, from April 1, 2019.

KYIV, Dec 18 - The Cabinet of Ministers has extended until December 31, 2019 the embargo on a host of Russian goods and the import duties on other Russian goods that were introduced in 2016 in response to Russian trade restrictions against Ukraine.

KYIV, Dec 14 – Imports of electric cars to Ukraine in grew 13% to 2,676 in January-November from 2,274 in the same period of 2016, the State Fiscal Service of Ukraine has said on its website.

DNIPRO, Dec 15 – Dnipro Mayor Borys Filatov has signed a trilateral agreement between the City Council, municipal enterprise Dniprovsky Electric Transport and representatives of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on preparing a EUR 10 million loan to buy 50 new trolleybuses and repair equipment.

KYIV, Dec 15 – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) plans a new five-year project to support reforms in the Ukrainian energy sector with the total cost of up to $90 million, a member of the parliamentary committee for fuel and energy complex, Olha Belkova, has said.

KYIV, Dec 18 – It is necessary to completely change Ukrainian patent legislation and complete judicial reform to ensure conditions in Ukraine to allow the creation of powerful information technology (IT) products, according to Dmytro Ovcharenko, IT Ukraine Association's Vice President for Legal Issues.

KYIV, Dec 18 - The U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) has approved the provision of a $150 million loan and up to $320 million for insurance and reinsurance for the project to build a large wind farm in Zaporizhia region by EuroCape.

KYIV, Dec 15 - The Turkish company Onur will complete the reconstruction of the section of the Kyiv-Odesa highway from Kyiv to Bila Tserkva instead of Altcom Financial and Industrial Group, Infrastructure Minister Volodymyr Omelyan said.