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UKRAINIAN SMART ENERGY PLANS TO INVEST $400 MLN IN HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION

4 June , 2021  

Smart Energy plans to invest $ 400 million in hydrocarbon production by 2031, CEO of the group of companies Serhiy Hlazunov has told reporters, presenting the results of ten years of activity in the market.
According to him, the total volume of Smart Energy investments in production for 2011-2020 amounted to UAH 3.5 billion, in particular, in 2019 – UAH 687 million, in 2020 – UAH 541 million.
The total amount of taxes paid for this period exceeded UAH 7.6 billion, in particular, in 2019 – UAH 1.291 billion, in 2020 – UAH 947 million.
Hlazunov said that in the next ten years, the group plans to drill over 30 new wells, while in the previous ten years, 13 wells were drilled. The existing Smart Energy park currently consists of 29 wells.
As reported, Smart Energy in 2020 increased natural gas production by 8.6% (by 31.8 million cubic meters) compared to 2019, to 400.6 million cubic meters, gas condensate – by 4.8% (by 1,600 tonnes), to 34,700 tonnes, and production of liquefied propane-butane – by 9.5% (by 800 tonnes), to 9,200 tonnes.
Smart Energy is a management company, part of Vadim Novinsky’s Smart-Holding Group, which implements projects in the field of hydrocarbon production and alternative energy. The group’s oil and gas business is represented in Poltava and Kharkiv regions by PrJSC Ukrgazvydobutok, the British public company Enwell Energy with assets in Poltava region, Prom-Energo Product LLC and Arkona Gas-Energy LLC.

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