The Verkhovna Rada vote for the law on land sale is supported by 26% of Ukrainians, while 60% are against the law adoption, the results of the social survey assessing the success of the government and society’s response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic and political events in the country, conducted by Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) on April 7-11.
“If a national referendum on the sale of agricultural land was held in the next week, 26% of those who are to participate in the referendum would vote in favor of the sale of land, and 74% against the sale of land,” KIIS said in a press release.
Some 32% of respondents believe that it is better now for Ukraine to cooperate with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) receiving new loans; 46% hold another opinion and said that it is now better not to cooperate with IMF and not to receive new loans.
The survey was conducted using the CATI method (computer-assisted telephone interviews) based on a random sampling of mobile phone numbers. During the survey, some 2,000 interviews were conducted in all regions of Ukraine, controlled by the government. The sample is representative for the adult population (18 years of age and older). The statistical sampling error (with a probability of 0.95 and taking into account the design effect of 1.1) does not exceed 2.2% for indicators close to 50%, 2.1% for indicators close to 25%, 1.4% for indicators close to 10%.
National bank of Ukraine’s official rates as of 16/04/20
Source: National Bank of Ukraine
Official rates of banking metals from national bank as of April 16
One troy ounce=31.10 grams
Astarta agricultural holding, major sugar producer in Ukraine, increased its sugar sales by 44% in January-March 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, to 77,560 tonnes, the company said at the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Tuesday, April 14.
According to the data, sales of wheat for the indicated period decreased by 68%, to 3,400 tonnes, corn by 17%, to 236,000 tonnes, sunflower oil by 99%, to 69 tonnes, soybean oil by 22%, to 11,140 tonnes, milk by 9%, to 23,640 tonnes.
Sales of soybean meal last year remained at the level of 2019 and were 46,860 tonnes.
According to the agricultural holding, average prices for sugar during the period decreased by 1%, wheat by 22%, corn by 6%, sunflower by 7%, soybean meal by 14%.
Average prices for milk increased by 9%, soybean oil by 1%.
Astarta is a vertically integrated agroindustrial holding operating in eight regions of Ukraine.
DTEK energy holding intends to implement a pilot project to construct the Energy Storage system at Zaporizhia thermal power plant (TPP) by the end of 2020, DTEK CEO Maksym Tymchenko has said.
“Now, we have actually started the pilot project on energy storage at Zaporizhia TPP. Even despite of the current crisis, we believe that this is a very important direction. I hope that this project will be implemented by the end of the year and we will develop energy storage technologies,” he said during an online briefing on Wednesday.
Tymchenko said that containerized solutions for gas power generation based on DTEK’s TPPs are also being considered, which will be able to meet the needs of balancing.
JKX Oil & Gas with assets in Ukraine and Russia in the first quarter of 2020 increased its average daily hydrocarbon production by 11% compared to the same period last year, to 10,996 barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), the company said on the London Stock Exchange’s website.
Thus, the average daily production in Ukraine increased by 7%, to 5,361 boepd, including gas production increased by 1%, to 715,000 cubic meters per day (Mcmd), oil and condensate by 38%, to 1,155 boepd. The average daily hydrocarbon production in the Russian Federation increased by 16% and amounted to 5,635 boepd. In particular, the average daily gas production for the reporting period is 946,000 cubic meters per day (16% more), condensate some 65 boepd (15% more).
The report says that well No. 143 was commissioned in the Ihnativske field in Ukraine in the first half of March. Its production rate is currently 157 barrels of oil per day (bopd) and 65,000 cubic meters of gas per day.
The average selling price of gas in Ukraine in January-March was $150 per 1,000 cubic meters, which is 44% less than a year earlier ($269), oil some $49 per barrel (17% less).
The company’s cash and cash equivalents as of March 31, 2020 were equal to $14.2 million (as of December 31 some $20.6 million). In addition, JKX had $2.4 million worth of oil and gas reserves ($4.1 million as of December 31).
