In Ukraine’s largest new PSA in more than five years, the official Uryadovy Courier has published governmental approval of the transfer of 90% of rights and obligations of the old Royal Dutch Shell gas concession in Kharkiv and Donetsk regions to Yuzgaz BV, a Ukrainian-controlled Dutch company. Yuzgaz has contracted Slovakia’s NAFTA to develop the Yuzivska field, where work was frozen in 2014 in face of the military threat from Russia. A Yuzgaz official says he believes that restarting the project in 2019 will encourage foreign companies to invest in Ukraine oil and gas.