KIEV, Nov. 16 - Gaz de France plans to use huge underground natural gas tanks in Ukraine beginning next year to store some of gas that it will be importing from Russia, an official said Wednesday.

Gaz de France and Naftogaz Ukrayiny, Ukraine??™s national oil and gas company, are in talks over prices that Naftogaz will charge the French company for the storage, Olekskiy Ivchenko, the head of Naftogaz, said.