This week, exchange trades in natural gas on the Ukrainian Energy Exchange (UEEX) significantly intensified and were quite effective. In particular, on Tuesday, July 10, 200 thousand cubic meters of July resource of natural gas were sold by Poltava Petroleum Company (JV PPC) at an weighted average price of 9 744 UAH with VAT per thousand cubic meters. On July 11, trades again became successful for JV PPC - 500 thousand cubic meters resource of July for 9 757 UAH with VAT per thousand cubic meters were sold. PJSC "Ukrnafta" also sold the entire put amount of July resource, and this is 3000 thousand cubic meters of gas at the weighted average price of 9 746,67 UAH with VAT per thousand cubic meters. The position for the purchase of Investpromgaz (subsidiary agricultural holding Astarta) was completely satisfied, the company bought 5000 thousand cubic meters of August resource, the weighted average purchase price was 9 740 UAH with VAT per thousand cubic meters. Thus, for two days of the current week the volume of natural gas sales on the UEEX reached 8 700 thousand cubic meters.

Exchange trading with gas at the UEEX is gaining momentum. Now the Exchange is actively preparing to launch the market of daily balancing of natural gas and has already begun to admit participants to the new trading platform "Energy Trading Platform". The Exchange invites all market participants to receive training in the new software product. Video course is already available and accredited participants may take practical classes (simulation trades) which are held every working day in the educational version of the platform. Granting access to the Exchange Information Platform for making deals in the over-the-counter trades, training in the "Energy Trading Platform" software is free of charge.

Prior the introduction of the daily balancing market, the "Energy Trading Platform" shall act as the Exchange Information Platform for making deals in the over-the-counter trades. After launching a new model of the natural gas market, the software product "Energy Trading Platform" will also be backed up with all necessary exchange instruments to function as a Trading platform with standardized products with a time interval on the "intraday" or "day ahead" markets.