KIEV, Aug. 14 – Chornomornaftogaz has selected Business Consultant LLC (based in Simferopol, Crimea) as the winner of a tender to supply an automatic process control system worth UAH 150.058 million (including VAT).

KIEV, Aug. 15 – UkrTVS, a Ukrainian-Kazakh-Russian joint venture for production of nuclear fuel, will conduct a technical and economic assessment of the organization of uranium extraction in Ukraine, taking into account experience of the introduction of drillhole ISL on the uranium fields in Kazakhstan.

KIEV, Aug. 16 - Ukraine’s largest petrochemical company KarpatNaftoKhim, owned by Russian oil company Lukoil, plans to suspend operation in September for a major upgrade, the company said Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 16 - Ukraine’s total exports of ferrous and non-ferrous metals and metal products, measured by value, decreased 7.3% year-on-year to $10.2 billion in January-June, the state statistics committee reported Thursday.

KIEV, Aug. 16 – Zaporizhstal, part of Metinvest Group, plans to finish the construction of a basis coal warehouse for stable operation of the blast furnace blowing coal unit by September 15, 2012, reads a press release of the company.

KIEV, Aug. 15 - Oleksandr Yanukovych, the eldest son of the president of Ukraine, has formed a supervisory board of private joint-stock company MACO Holding (earlier private joint-stock company Management Assets Corporation, MACO, Donetsk), consisting of three members and headed by the board, reads a company report.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – The State Property Fund has decided to privatize Dniprodzerzhynska, Kherson, Odessa pump storage power plants and Kharkiv pump storage power plant 5 and Crimea Titan (Armiansk, Crimea), the fund reported in the Vidomosti Pryvatyzatsii newspaper on Wednesday.

MOSCOW, Aug. 15 - The Energia Corporation is planning over five launches of Zenit-3SL rockets from a floating platform in the Pacific in the coming year, Energia President Vitaly Lopota told Interfax-AVN on Monday.

KIEV, Aug. 15 - Donetskstal Metallurgical Plant has completed a comprehensive international restructuring of a debt estimated at $820 million that covers all of its financial creditors, including international banks, Ukrainian banks, and bond holders.

KIEV, Aug. 15 – There is a direct link for Ukrainians between feelings of happiness and wage levels, which is not seen in other countries, Director of the Kiev International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) Volodymyr Paniotto said in an interview with the Mirror Weekly online publication.