KYIV, Aug 15 – The ISKATEL research vessel has returned from an expedition to find oil deposits on the northwestern shelf of the Black Sea, the press service of the State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources of Ukraine said.

KYIV, Aug 15 - Coal reserves at the warehouses of Ukrainian thermal power plants (TPPs) and combined heat and power plants (CHPPs) as of August 14, 2018, totaled 1.68 million tons, which was 0.42 million tons, or 20.2%, lower year-over-year, Ukraine's Energy Ministry has reported.

KYIV, Aug 15 – Ukraine and the international community have never recognized Russia's law about invalidating Ukrainian licenses for mineral deposits in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, Ukraine's Ecology and Natural Resources Minister Ostap Semerak has said.

KYIV, Aug 15 - The new An-178 transport aircraft with a payload capacity of 18 tons, designed by the Antonov State Enterprise (Kyiv), will replenish the novelties of the Ukrainian defense industry at a military parade in Kyiv on August 24 on the occasion of Ukraine's Independence Day.

KYIV, Aug 16 – New longworks are to be launched at Kapitalna mine of state enterprise Myrnohradvuhillia, Kurakhovska mine of state company Selydovvuhillia and Pivdennodonbaske No. 1 mine directorate by the end of the current year, the press service of the government has reported, citing Deputy Prime Minister Volodymyr Kistion.

KYIV, Aug 16 – Ukraine has increased gas stocks in its underground storage facilities to over 14 billion cubic meters (bcm), Ukrainian energy and coal industry minister's advisor Maksym Beliavsky has said.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Naftogaz Ukrayiny said it only plans to pay Gazprom for the natural gas it orders and receives and not for the gas volumes that Gazprom claims to supply to the territory outside Kiev's control in Donetsk and Luhansk regions, which may be used to write off losses.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Kiev's Holosiyivsky district court has extended its arrest with a UAH 450 million bail option on former of Naftogaz Ukrayiny deputy chairman Oleksandr Katsuba for two months, said Larysa Sargan, Ukrainian Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko's spokesperson.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Ukrenergo intends to build a 220 kV power line that would unite the north of Luhansk region with the Ukrainian power grid by late 2017, Vsevolod Kovalchuk, acting director of the state-owned company, told reporters on Tuesday.

KIEV, Aug. 14 - The current cost of basic foodstuff in the consumer basket of Ukrainians has decreased by 10% compared to the beginning of 2012, said Serhiy Petrenko, deputy director of the economic development and agricultural market department at the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry.