KIEV, Nov. 20 ??“ UkrNafta, Ukraine's largest oil producer, will in the middle of December announce the results of a tender to select a general contractor to build the first part of the Hamaliyivsky gas processing plant in Poltava region and to upgrade the Pasychniansky gas processing plant in Ivano-Frankivsk region.

"Everything is going as planned. The tender has closed, and the company will give all information to the national JSC Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the Fuel and Energy Ministry, and the OJSC's supervisory council in the near future," UkrNafta Board Chairman Ihor Palytsia said in Kiev last week. He said that the tender committee had seen pressure from a Ukrainian bidder.