Ukraine after the completion of the heating season increased its natural gas reserves in the underground gas storage facilities by 9.243 billion cubic meters (bcm), according to data from Ukrtransgaz. So, from April 8 to October 14, 2018 gas inventories rose by almost 2.2 times, from 7.435 bcm to 16.678 bcm.
According to the calculations of the Interfax-Ukraine agency, on October 1 through October 14 gas storage facilities were replenished by 443.72 million cubic meters (mcm, 31.69 mcm per day), in September by 1.595 bcm (53.17 mcm a day), in August by 1.793 bcm (57.85 mcm per day), in July by 1.655 bcm (53.38 mcm per day), in June by 1.623 bcm (54.09 mcm per day), in May by 1.632 bcm (52.65 mcm per day), April 9-30 by 500.84 mcm (22.77 mcm per day).
Ukraine came out from the 2017/2018 heating season with the minimum stocks in the last four seasons due to the frosty March-early April.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine expects that gas inventories by November 1, 2018 will amount to 17 bcm.
A Ukrainian delegation will study best practices in trading in commodities futures in the United States, Yulia Vitka, the deputy head of the USAID Financial Sector Transformation project, wrote on Facebook. “A delegation from Ukraine is once again leaving for Chicago to get in-depth knowledge of the activities of commodities futures trading giants such as stock exchanges (CME), elevators (COFCO), traders (ADM) and to talk to the biggest U.S. associations in these areas, such as the National Grain Association and the National Futures Association,” Vitka wrote.
She stated the delegation will focus on the agricultural and power industries, in which Ukraine “has got all the prerequisites to turn into a regional hub.” According to her, the implementation of such an instrument will allow to promote fair competition and reasonable pricing and to attract investors.
“What can be done as of today? First of all, vote for draft law No. 9035 that not only introduces financial instruments but also creates respective safety levers so that the trade would remain within the established rules, which will be trusted and respected,” Vitka said.
As was earlier reported, experts from the National Commission on Securities and the Stock Market and the USAID Financial Sector Transformation project announced in late 2017 that within a span of five years Ukraine stands a good chance to create a futures contracts market for agricultural products that will be worth $8 billion and for energy products worth about $20 billion.
Businessman Vagif Aliyev, the investor and owner of the Lavina, Blokbuster and Ocean Mall shopping and entertainment centers in Kyiv, plans to finish the sale of a part of the Parus class A business center in Kyiv by late 2018 to finance construction of the mega mall network. “Yes, we will gradually sell Parus,” Aliyev said in a blitz-interview with Interfax-Ukraine. According to him, negotiations on the deal are currently ongoing, but the buyer’s name has not been announced.
“We are in the process of negotiations… [The transaction] is not yet completed, we are in the process of discussing the financial interest..,” the developer said, adding that the completion of the transaction is expected by the end of 2018.
As reported, at the end of 2016, Aliyev said that he was ready to sell the Parus business center if he could not attract loan funds to complete the construction of the Blokbuster Mall shopping center. Aliyev announced the completion of the transaction on the sale of the Senator business center located at 2, Riznytska Street, in the Pechersky district of Kyiv. The Parus business center with 33 floors located at 2, Mechnikova Street in the Pechersky district of Kyiv was commissioned in 2007. The building has an underground four-level parking for 300 cars.
China’s Trina Solar Limited has announced the delivery of photovoltaic modules with a total capacity of 123 MW for a solar power plant project, implemented by Ukraine’s largest private energy holding DTEK. “The construction of a power plant, the contractor of which is China Machinery Engineering Corporation (CMEC), is to be completed in early 2019, and in March the facility will be connected to the national power system,” the Chinese company said in a statement.
Trina Solar said that the design capacity of the station, located near Nikopol in Dnipropetrovsk region, is 246 MW.
“After the completion of construction and installation work, this facility will become the largest solar farm in the region, as well as the largest exclusively solar power plant in Europe,” the release says.
According to the report, the facility will be able to generate 280 million kWh of solar energy per year, which will allow it becoming one of the three leading suppliers of similar energy resources in Europe. The plant will be able to fully meet the needs of 100,000 households in Ukraine and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by more than 300,000 tonnes per year.
Trina Solar, founded in 1997, is one of the world’s leading suppliers of integrated solutions for solar energy.
