KIEV, Sept. 16 – The State Property Fund is to announce a tender to sell state stakes in 14 regional energy supply companies (oblenergos) by Dec. 1, Dmytro Parfenenko, acting head of the fund, has reported.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development will consider on Nov. 17 extending a $300 million loan to the national gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny for purchase of gas repayable at end of the winter heating season.

KIEV, Sept. 17 - Ukraine reduced oil production 6.4% to 1.965 million tons in January-August compared to the same period of 2008, the Fuel and Energy Ministry reported.

Gas condensate production fell 5.7% to 715,300 tons in the eight months.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – Ukraine's State Property Fund has sold the last state stake in OJSC Arcelor Mittall Kryviy Rih (earlier Kryvorizhstal, Dnipropetrovsk region) of 0.1% of the company's statutory fund for UAH 54.82 million.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – The rent rates and prices for trade and office space in Kiev in August continued growing compared to June and July 2008, Eduard Viznyak, the head of the commercial real estate at Kiev-based Trayektoria Ltd., told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, Sept. 16 – The liquidity crisis of the Ukrainian banking system would continue for at least a year and a half, and the real estate market will require at least six months to return to pre-crisis levels of construction, said Petro Slipets, chairman of KDD Group N.V. (the Netherlands), a holding company Ukrainian development and real estate investment groups Kiev-Donbas.

YALTA, Sept. 17 – Ukrainian insurance companies in H2 may see premium collection fall due to problems in the banking sector.

Speaking at the at the eighth International Yalta Forum of Insurers on Tuesday, Valeriy Alyoshin, chairman of the state commission for regulation of financial services markets, said that events occurred in June [flood in western Ukraine] are evidence of the availability of a potential for growth in property insurance in the country.

KIEV, Sept. 17 – The resurgence of the international financial crisis pushes Ukraine to increase borrowing on the domestic market, said Finance Minister Viktor Pynzenyk.

Zaporizhia, Sept. 14 – Zaporizhia-based Dniproenergo plans in 2008-2012 to allocate UAH1.986 billion for the upgrade of heat power plants, announced Dniproenergo Director General Yuriy Bochkarev.

ODESSA, Sept. 17 - TransInvestService Ltd. (TIS) plans to build a cargo trans-shipping terminal at Odessa's Yuzhny port, Andriy Vetriak, the manager of the TIS project group, told Interfax-Ukraine.