The first oil and gas production sharing agreements – long awaited by foreign investors – should go for auction by February

The first oil and gas production sharing agreements – long awaited by foreign investors – should go for auction by February, Maxim Nefyodov, first Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade tells Interfax-Ukraine. Separately, Roman Opimakh, executive director of the Gas Production Companies Association, says that the Energy and Coal Industry Minisry has prepared 12 plots for tenders. Speaking Thursday at press conference, he said the government will announce the first two “soon.”