KIEV, Aug. 29 – Ukrnafta, Ukraine's largest oil producing company, has hired two companies to conduct 3D seismic prospecting via a plane-table survey at six hydrocarbon deposits in Lviv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Poltava and Kharkiv regions.

KIEV, Aug. 29 - Agrarian Policy and Food Minister Mykola Prysiazhniuk says he hopes that Parliament will lift grain export duties early in September.

KIEV, Aug. 27 – Ukraine's Finance Ministry on Friday issued the second tranche of government domestic loan bonds worth almost UAH 2.05 billion to repay delayed value-added tax refunds (VAT bonds).

KIEV, Aug. 30 – Residents of apartments that have less than 40 square meters per person will not have to pay property taxes, Deputy Prime Minister for Euro 2012 Borys Kolesnikov has said in an interview with the Dzerkalo Tyzhnia (Mirror Weekly) newspaper.

KIEV, Aug. 30 – Consumer confidence in Ukraine fell by 8.1 percentage points in July against the background of worsening economic expectations, according to a survey by the International Centre for Policy Studies and GfK Ukraine.

KIEV, Aug. 28 – The deficit of Ukraine’s national budget in January-July 2009 came to UAH 15.352 billion, growing by 44.8% or UAH 4.748 billion.

A posting on the Web site of Ukraine’s Finance Ministry says that the deficit of the budget’s general fund in January-July 2009 reached UAH 17.877 billion, which is UAH 3.805 billion up from H1.

KIEV, Aug. 30 - UkrNafta, Ukraine's biggest oil company, plans to close 2007 with a higher-than-earlier-forecast net profit of UAH850 million to UAH1 billion, first deputy CEO for economics and finance Volodymyr Pustovarov said.

WARSAW, Aug. 30 - Polish pipeline system operator PERN hopes the states interested in construction of the Odessa-Brody-Gdansk (O-B-G) oil pipeline will make their final decision to join the operator of the project in September, Marcin Jastrzebski, PERN's vice president for strategic issues, said in an interview with Interfax.

KIEV, Aug. 30 - U.S. company MaxWell Biocorporation is preparing to launch a drug production facility on the basis of a scientific and industrial cancer and cardiological center under construction in Boryspil in Kiev region, which will be the largest in Eastern Europe, the company told Interfax-Ukraine.

KIEV, April 30 - Arcelor Mittal, the world’s largest steel maker, plans to invest $2 billion to upgrade and to expand its Ukrainian steelmaking operation within the next four years, the company reported Thursday.