Companies from the US, China, Romania, and Ukraine are finalists for a Naftogaz project to

Companies from the US, China, Romania, and Ukraine are finalists for a Naftogaz project to increase gas production from depleted deposits in western Ukraine, Naftogaz CEO Andriy Kobolyev writes on Facebook. The four qualifying companies are Baker Hughes, from the US; a consortium of Xinjiang Bucking Energy Engineering and Zhongshi Shenli Petroleum Engineering, from China; Expert Petroleum Solutions SRL, from Romania; and Poltava Petroleum Company, from Ukraine. Kobolyev said he was happy to see the tender drew “powerful international players.” Under production sharing agreements, winning companies would provide the money and technology and would share gas production with Naftogaz, the owner of the fields.