Ukrainian representative of the international Corporation Chevron ? " Chevron Ukraine B. V. ? announced the closure, a conclusion which was adopted on 2 July at the meeting of the Board of Directors of the organization.
No details regarding the reasons for the decision of the management of Chevron to close the Ukrainian organization is not given.
a decision letter of the Board of Directors of Chevron Ukraine B. V." On the stopping of the activity was published in the Ukrainian newspaper "governmental courier" on Tuesday. The report said only that the proper decision was made on 2 July. The agreement On production sharing with the American oil company Chevron, which has declared its intention to invest about $ 10 billion in production of hydrocarbons in Western Ukraine, was signed in November 2013 by the Ukrainian company " Nadra Oleska ", 90% of which is owned by the state-owned company " Nadra Ukrayny ". To present, the Company " Chevron Ukraine B. V., which was registered in January 2013, has worked to develop the olesska field (Lviv and Ivano-Frankivsk region), where intended to lead the production of shale gas. The intention Chevron's sole right to terminate the project contract and to withdraw from former Deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Valeriy Chaly said at the end of 2014, but then Authorized the American organization named him a Message premature. Inferred resources Olesko area is estimated at 2, 98 trillion cubic meters of gas. Annual production at this site may be 5-10 billion cubic meters. It was expected that Chevron in the first stage (2-3 years) will be spent on seismic, exploration and drilling is about 350 million dollars, reminds RIA " Novosti ". Ukraine is now in a serious political crisis, which affects its economy and the public sector, in fact the country is on the verge of default. Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk stated before that in 2015, the country faces the challenge to " survive ". According to the report " the Millennium development Goals Ukraine: 2000?2015 ", presented on 6 July in the process of the round table in Kiev, the level of poverty in Ukraine in 2015 will reach 33%.

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