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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST 14-20.12.2015

 
The last year will be remembered in oil and gas industry as an irretrievable loss of time, efforts and investments. All the reforms in the industry boil down to the Law on gas market that will not start working soon. All the hopes of upstream sector relate to decrease of royalty. In the last days of this year Verkhovna Rada is going to adopt the State Budget for 2016 and its draft includes this decrease. There is a hope that the main problem of the industry will remain in the departing year.
 
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OIL AND GAS FIELD WEEKLY REVIEW
UKRAINIAN COMPANIES
SFS arrested Ukrnafta’s assets totaling 9 billion UAH - Yatsenyuk
Prosecutor’s office revealed money withdrawal from Ukrgazdobycha
Naftogaz supplied 71% of the total gas market volume for 9 months of 2015
Ukrgazdobycha lost 185 MMCM of gas because of ATO
Ukrgazdobycha promises to pay 30 billion UAH of taxes in 2016
Ukrgazdobycha expects production at the level of 14.5 BCM this year
INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
KazMunaiGas sells to the Chinese 51% of the shares of Rompetrol for 4 billion USD - media
Lukoil will supply 2.5 million tons of oil to Belarus in January-June 2016
INFRASTRUCTURE
Russia resumed coal supplies to Ukraine
Ukrtransnaftoprodukt prepares Odessa refinery to be launched
Ukrtransgaz expects to complete works to expand the Slovak route until December 25
POLITICS AND WORLD
At the III-rd auction Gosgeonedra sold oil and gas areas worth 2.825 million UAH
“Nord Stream” or “North Wind”?
Global oil surplus will continue until the end of 2016 - IEA
Ukraine can export gas in ten years – Yatsenyuk
Kazakhstan produced 60.7 million tons of oil in January-November 2015
Russia moved stolen “Boyko’s derricks” away from continental Ukraine