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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST 27.07-02.08.2015

 
The vacation season resulted in a down time in business news including oil and gas industry. This week the main event in Ukrainian energy was the death of Polish businessman Jan Kulczyk who was interested in Ukraine and was actively looking at investing in country’s economy. Among the other news are the plans of Lviv company Goryzonty regarding geological study on 3 new fields.
 
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OIL AND GAS FIELD WEEKLY REVIEW
UKRAINIAN COMPANIES
Gas production in Kharkiv region decreased by 2%
Ukrnafta for exchange
Nadra of Ukraine got over 7 million of loss for half-year
Goryzonty will invest 200 million UAH by 2018 to explore areas acquired
Ukrnafta got 3.9 billion UAH of net profit for the first half of 2015
KulczykInvestments’s owner died
INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
Shell is preparing for a long period of cheap oil
Gazprom took Turkmenistan to court
Gazprom’s domestic market share may be reduced – media
INFRASTRUCTURE
EBRD will finance construction of the second phase of WPP Stary Sambor-1
Ukrtatnafta increased net profit 2.2 times in the first half-year
Gazprom sharply increased gas transit through Ukraine’s GTS
POLITICS AND WORLD
Oil price falls as number of drilling rigs goes up in the United States
Ukraine will eliminate additional import fee in early 2016
Ministry of Finance will reduce royalty for oil and gas production to 14-29%, Yaresko
Cabinet instructed State Geological and Mineral Resources Service (Gosgeonedr) to inventory all wells in Ukraine
Kazakhstan will search oil at 9 km depth
What Kulczyk didn’t have time to buy and build in Ukraine