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Ukrnafta has received UAH 700 mln of profit

12 September , 2023  

PJSC “Ukrnaftoburnia” (“UNB”) according to the results of work in the first half of 2023 received a profit of 700 million UAH, said the director of PJSC “Ukrnafta”, to which the company is transferred in management, Sergiy Koretskyy.

“In the first half of 2023, the company received 700 million UAH of profit. There are reasons to believe that according to the results of the second half of the year “UNB” will be able to earn almost three times more. We state the fact of a significant increase in realization prices,” he wrote on his Facebook page.

“As stipulated by the concluded contracts with ARMA, 90% of net profit will be transferred in favor of the state,” Koretskyi specified.

According to him, the company also managed to eliminate technological deficiencies and launch the 88th well.

“After the drilling was completed, we received a flow of high-pressure formation water from the upper horizons. We carried out repair and water isolation works. Consequently, we increased production by 170 thousand cubic meters of gas and 30 tons of condensate per day,” he said.

In addition, “UNB” plans to soon complete commissioning of the booster compressor station, which will slow down the natural decline in production.

As reported, after the arrest and court decision to transfer to the management of ARMA “Ukrnaftoburnia”, LLC “Sakhalinskoye”, LLC “Sirius-1”, LLC “East Europe Petroleum” in the case on the legality of subsoil use of the Sakhalin field, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine by the order №454-r of May 23, 2023 supported the proposal to transfer to the management of “Ukrnafta” corporate rights in these companies.

At the end of June, the AMCU authorized Ukrnafta to receive shares in the authorized capitals of these companies for management. On July 7, the acts of acceptance and transfer of assets were signed.

“Ukrnafta is one of the largest private gas production companies in Ukraine. Since 2010, it has been developing the Sakhalin oil and gas condensate field (Krasnokutsk district, Kharkiv region) with reserves of 15 billion cubic meters of gas. The company’s gross production in 2020 will amount to 725.4 million cubic meters of gas and 80.8 thousand tons of oil and condensate, in 2021 – 691.3 million cubic meters and 76.6 thousand tons.

For the Sakhalin field as a whole, gas production in 2020 amounted to 844.3 million cubic meters and 86 thousand tons of oil and condensate, in 2021 – 789.5 million cubic meters and 80.8 thousand tons.

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