KIEV, Dec. 17 ??“ Gazprom, the Russian gas giant, and ChornomorNaftoGaz, Ukraine's oil and gas producer, plan to set up a joint venture next year to develop Ukrainian offshore natural gas fields in the Black Sea, a spokesman at ChornomorNaftoGaz said Friday.

KYIV, Nov 19 - Since the beginning of the full-scale war, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has invested approximately EUR 5 billion in Ukraine, approximately EUR 2 billion of which has been directed to the implementation of energy projects, including in the field of renewable energy, said Associate Director, Senior Banker of the Bank's Energy Department Olga Yeriomina.

KYIV, Nov 19 - Ukraine's Ukrnafta has signed an agreement with Shell to acquire a 51% stake in Alliance Holding LLC, the operator of Shell's filling station network in Ukraine, the company announced on Tuesday.

KYIV, Nov 19 – The growth rate of gross domestic product (GDP) of Ukraine in October slowed to 1.1% against 4% in September and 4.4% in August 2024, which is due to the pace of harvesting, according to the Monthly Economic Monitoring of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting (IER).

KYIV, Nov 16 – The number of freight transport leaving Ukraine since the beginning of the blockade by Polish haulers of three border crossing points on the Ukrainian-Polish border on November 6 has decreased by 20-25%, Deputy Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development Yuriy Vaskov said at the Annual General Membership Meeting of the European Business Association (EBA).

KYIV, Nov 16 – Due to the incompetent actions of the Russian occupiers and Rosatom employees, on November 14, a partial blackout occurred at the Zaporizhia Nuclear Power Plant in the form of de-energization at power unit No. 6.

KYIV, Nov 16 – More than 100 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) will be able to receive preferential loans as part of OTP Bank's cooperation with USAID under the Financial Sector Reform project, Pavlo Huzyr, head of alternative sales channels projects of OTP Bank's Agrofabrika, said.

KYIV, Nov 19 – The government-approved list of priority investment projects for the state for the period up to 2023 includes 13 power projects.

As reported on the website of the Ministry of Energy on Thursday, two of the power projects relate to the development of nuclear industry – the construction of power units No. 3 and No. 4 of the Khmelnytsky nuclear power plant (KhNPP-3, 4), as well as the creation of a data center at the facilities of the National Nuclear Generating Company Energoatom.

KYIV, Nov 19 – Biopharma, one of the first pharmaceutical companies to produce therapeutics to treat COVID-19, said its production of Bioven drug is limited due to lack of plasma donation culture in Ukraine.

KYIV, Nov 19 – Millstone & Co, an investment firm with offices in Ukraine and Poland, plans to spend more than EUR 10 million to complete exploration of lithium deposits in Ukraine in the next two years.