Ukraine can be the “Texas of Europe,”

Ukraine can be the “Texas of Europe,” US Energy Secretary Rick Perry told representatives of American businesses in Kyiv on Monday. “The [oil and gas] formations that are here — the potential for the development of those is, I think it’s staggering,” said Perry, who served as governor of Texas from 2000 to 2015. “There are very bright and capable geologists that talk about Ukraine potentially having fields as big or bigger than what we see in the United States.”