KYIV, Oct 24 – The total sum of overpayments to Gazprom for gas transit sent to Naftogaz Ukrayiny to offset the penalty accrued on the debt of the Russian company in line with the arbitration award on the transit contract issued on February 28, 2018, has reached $18 million, Chief Commercial Officer of Naftogaz Ukrayiny Yuriy Vitrenko said.

KYIV, Oct 24 – Ukraine has entered the heating season with enough natural gas stocks, and nothing is threatening to the heating season, Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman said at a government meeting on Wednesday.

KYIV, Oct 23 – Ukrtransnafta on Monday evening recovered all its oil kept in storage facilities of ol refinery Naftokhimik Prykarpattia, First Deputy CEO Andriy Pasishnyk said.

SIMFEROPOL, Oct 23 – The chemical plant manufacturing titanium dioxide, which is a subsidiary of Titanium Investment LLC in the town of Armiansk in the northern part of Crimea, has been given permission to resume operation after it was halted in early September due to a release of harmful emissions into the air from its acid holding basin.

KYIV, Oct 23 – Ukrainians in September were optimistic about the country's economic development over the next year – the respective index grew by 10 points compared with the August figure, to 62.6, and consumer confidence improved by 2.3 points.

KYIV, Oct 23 – The Interagency Commission for International Trade in most cases makes decisions in antidumping investigations in favor of a national manufacturer, Director of the Trade Protection Department of the Economic Development and Trade Ministry Natalia Sydoruk said.

KYIV, Oct. 23 – Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman and Vice President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Alain Pilloux at a meeting agreed on the start of a new strategy for cooperation in the implementation of large and long-term projects.

KYIV, Oct 24 - The construction of a grain terminal of Cargill and MV Cargo with a capacity of 5 million tons of grain a year in Yuzhny port, whose cost is estimated at $150 million, has reached the middle and will be fully completed in spring 2018, MV Cargo has told Interfax-Ukraine.

KYIV, Oct 24 - DTEK will soon supply the first 150,000 tons of G grade (gas) coal from the United States to replenish the stocks in the warehouses of its thermal power plants (TPP) while preparing for the heating season, the company's press service has said.

KYIV, Oct 24 – The additional revenues of Naftogaz Ukrayiny from transit of gas during the temporary restriction in the work of the OPAL gas pipeline (the eastern part of the Nord Stream trunk pipeline) amounted to about $300 million, Naftogaz Head Andriy Kobolev has said.