KYIV, Jan 12 - Ukraine has 452.8 billion cubic meters of natural gas available to be extracted from its soil, Chairman of NAK Nadra Ukrayiny’s board Yaroslav Klymovych wrote in his article in the government's Uriadovy Kurier newspaper.

"In Ukraine, there are 402 hydrocarbon deposits, of which 269 are in industrial development. The state balance of Ukraine's mineral reserves in 402 deposits takes into account producing reserves of natural gas in the amount of 905.6 bcm (those produced account for 68.9% of all reserves) ... As is seen from experience of mining in Ukraine, only half of these reserves could be extracted (452.8 bcm of gas) ... and this is for 22 years of production [at the current rate]," he said.