In the latest Eastern Ukraine gas discovery, Burisma Group, the nation’s leading private natural gas producer, says it has discovered a discovered a new field in Kharkiv region that could contain 7 billion cubic meters of gas —

In the latest Eastern Ukraine gas discovery, Burisma Group, the nation’s leading private natural gas producer, says it has discovered a discovered a new field in Kharkiv region that could contain 7 billion cubic meters of gas — equivalent to half Ukraine’s gas imports this year. Burisma CEO Taras Burdeynyi says of the Pegedivske field: “Well testing showed daily production rates of more than 200 thousand cubic meters.” In May, state-owned Ukrgazvidobuvannya announced the discovery of another gas deposit in Kharkiv region. This fall, Slovakia’s NAFTA hopes to start work on the massive Kharkiv-Luhansk oil and gas field abandoned by Royal Dutch Shell PLC after the war started in 2014.