NEW YORK, Sept. 25 - Ukraine and an ExxonMobil-led consortium on Wednesday agreed within a month to sign a production sharing agreement to tap a major natural gas field offshore the Black Sea, the government reported.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – Ukraine's Economic Development and Trade Ministry hopes to borrow from $750 million to $1 billion from the World Bank in 2013 under the Second Roads and Safety Improvement Project (RSIP2).

KIEV, Sept. 24 – Ukraine has started to prepare for the mass production of engines for the fourth stage of the new European Vega launch vehicle.

"The engine for the second stage of the Vega rocket was supplied to the European Customer in late August. Preparations for mass production are currently underway.

KIEV, Sept. 24 – The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank plans to lend up to $100 million to Ukraine under various projects soon, according to Economic Development and Trade Minister Petro Poroshenko.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – The reduction in the borrowing rate for Ukraine's additionally placed five-year eurobonds will allow Ukrainian state-run banks and large corporations to return to the foreign borrowing market, Finance Minister Yuriy Kolobov said.

KIEV, Sept. 25 - Ukraine accumulated 18.3 billion cubic meters of natural gas in its underground gas storage facilities as of September 22, the state-owned gas shipping monopoly UkrTransGaz reported Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 25 – Obolon, one of the largest beer and beverage producers in Ukraine, plans to build a biogas facility to generate power from industrial and household sewage.

KIEV, Sept. 25 - Ukraine will probably sign a production sharing agreement (PSA) with Chevron over development of Olesska shale gas deposit by early November, Environment and Natural Resources Minister Eduard Stavytskiy said Tuesday.

KIEV, Sept. 22 – The subsistence wage in Ukraine will grow by 14% in 2012, First Deputy Prime Minister and Economic Development and Trade Minister Andriy Kliuyev said.

KIEV, Sept. 23 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development may next year extend some $150 million in financing for the first phase of the modernization of Ukraine's gas transport system, but is waiting to see the country take specific steps toward the restructuring and financial rejuvenation of national oil and gas company Naftogaz Ukrayiny, the bank's country chief for Ukraine, Andre Kuusvek, told Interfax-Ukraine.