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WEEKLY NEWS DIGEST 13-19.07.2015

 
In today’s issue of the digest the primary news are dedicated to the new Draft Law №2352а that suggests decreasing the royalty rate for private gas producers. The Draft Law developed by the Ministry of Finance and approved with the Cabinet of Ministers was submitted to Verkhovna Rada and was supposed to be reviewed on Thursday. However, the discussion of changes to the Constitution and the lack of time didn’t allow for adoption of the bill.
 
CONTENTS
 
OIL AND GAS FIELD WEEKLY REVIEW
UKRAINIAN COMPANIES
BG Group manager may head Ukrnafta
Chernomorneftegaz has not enough funds to make preparations for winter
Naftogaz offers private producers to singly pump gas surplus into UGS or export them
Ukrnafta’s new head was elected - Abromavicius
Kolomoisky supported Rollins candidacy to head Ukrnafta
Naftogaz was allowed to impound property of the debtor companies
Privat filed a lawsuit to the British court against Naftogaz
INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES
Shell buys Morgan Stanley’s gas and energy assets in Europe
Gas production growth points. Reportage from the facilities of Burisma Holdings in Kharkiv region
American TrailStone may enter Ukraine’s gas market already this autumn
Chevron closes office in Ukraine
INFRASTRUCTURE
Naftogaz offers to take advantage of free capacities to import gas to Ukraine from the EU
Former leadership of Ukrtransnafta is accused of oil substitution
Naftogaz announced a tender for providing bank counter-guarantees to import gas from Europe
POLITICS AND WORLD
About rent drawback and taxes withdrawal
Government is dropping rent for gas production
Poroshenko signed a law on disclosure on extractive industries
Ukraine halves royalty for gas production starting from October 1, Yaresko