KYIV, June 19 - The State Service of Geology and Mineral Resources estimates gas resources on 44 fields, special permits on which will be put up for sale in the near future, at one trillion cubic meters (tcm), acting head of the service Oleh Kyryliuk said.

"The deposits we are preparing for auctions have the resources exceeding one trillion cubic meters," he said.

The expert added the matter concerns about 11 deposits in Poltava region, four in Kharkiv, Sumy, Ivano-Frankivsk and Dnipropetrovsk regions, and one in Chernihiv, Odesa and Zakarpattia regions, as well as 14 fields on the Black Sea shelf.