KIEV, Oct. 13 - Ukraine’s biggest natural gas producer UkrGazDobuvannia (UGV) and Romania’s Tacrom Services S.R.L. signed a one-year contract for 50 hydrofracking jobs, UGV reported Thursday.

KIEV, Oct. 14 - The government of the Federal Republic of Germany has issued a grant worth EUR 7 million for the development of social infrastructure objects in Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – The capacity of power accumulation systems integrated into photovoltaic modules will grow exponentially in the coming five years and at the end of 2017 will reach five gigawatt-hours, Activ Solar Chief Operating Officer Johann Harter said, referring to the forecast of IHS international company.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – The volume of molasses made in Ukraine in a year is enough to produce only 100,000 tons of bioethanol, which is one third of the country's needs for 2014, Director of Ukrprodspilka Mykola Tychenko, said at a roundtable in Kiev on Tuesday.

"Taking into account the forecasts for the harvest, this year we'll have 400,000-500,000 tons of molasses. If it all of it is used to produce bioethanol, this is enough to make only 100,000 tons," he said.

KIEV, Oct. 16 - The Malyshev Plant (Kharkiv) completed a first batch of five Oplot main battle tanks produced under an order from Thailand and presented them to the customer on Tuesday.

KIEV, Oct. 15 - Ukraine's nominal GDP in 2012 will amount to less than UAH 1.5 trillion, which is lower than all the current government forecasts, according to the National Bank of Ukraine.

KIEV, Oct. 16 - National power company Ukrenergo plans to raise $1.25 billion loan for building a steam-gas power plant in Scholkine (Crimea) and the development of a power and gas distribution network in the eastern part of the Crimean peninsula.

KIEV, Oct. 16 – The National Bank of Ukraine has issued a statement in defense of its moves against some banks of the currency interbank market for violating foreign currency trading procedures.

KIEV, Oct. 14 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is mulling its participation in the equity capital Mykolaivcement (Lviv region) and its participation in the financing of the construction of a new plant that will produce cement using the dry method that is to be located ten kilometers from the existing plant.

KIEV, Oct. 14 – Podilsky Cement (Kamianets-Podilsky, Khmelnytsky region), part of Cement Roadstone Holdings (CRH, Ireland), has launched a new technological cement line using a dry production method with a production capacity of around three million tons of cement per year, Podilsky Cement commercial director Anatoliy Dehtiarev announced.