Friday, June 15th, seemed fruitful for gas contracts on the Ukrainian Energy Exchange, 2.8 million cubic meters of natural gas were sold. In particular, three gas-extraction companies offered their resource for trades № GAS-150618-11: JV Poltava Petroleum Company (10 lots for 50 thousand cubic meters of July resource), PAT Ukrnafta (20 lots for 100 thousand cubic meters of June resource) TOV "SGS" (Geo-Alliance) (5 lots for 50 thousand cubic meters of July resource ) and two positions with the resource of June and July offered by the trader TOV Kraft Energy (a total of 12 lots for 50 thousand cubic meters). At the same time, gas-extracting companies have fully sold their lots and one lot sold by the trader. Trades of gas-extracting companies started at a mark of 9 400 UAH with VAT per thousand cubic meters, the starting price of the trader was – 9 350 UAH with VAT per thousand cubic meters.

As a result of trades, which, due to high competition, were even continued in time, the price indicators for natural gas by the results of the trading week stopped at the following points: the minimum price for the trading session was 9 300 UAH with VAT per thousand cubic meters, maximum – 9 480 UAH with VAT per thousand cubic meters and volume weighted average price - 9 376.95 UAH with VAT per thousand cubic meters.

CEO of the Ukrainian Energy Exchange Oleksandr Kovalenko, commenting on the results of trades, said: "Natural things are happening. Ukrainian Energy Exchange is confidently moving to its goals and becoming a benchmark, supported by the necessary level of liquidity and publication of exchange quotes at the international price agency Thomson Reuters. We can give the Ukrainian market and foreign stakeholders the exact benchmarks: the market price for natural gas in Ukraine today for the resource of July is 9 402.26 UAH per thousand cubic meters and 9 300.89 UAH per thousand cubic meters per resource of June."