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Ukraine’s Deputy Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources Dmytro Mormul recently met with Mikael Solymar, director of research at the Norwegian Statoil, an international energy company operating in 34 countries. The Norwegian company expressed its interest in a detailed study of co­ope­ra­tion possibilities with Ukraine in the field of oil production on the continental shelf of the Black Sea, the ministry reports on its website. The press ser­vice cla-rifies that both sides were particularly interested in discussing the current state of Ukrainian legislation, the practice of production-sharing agreements, and the technological challenges facing geological research. It is worth noting that Statoil is the world’s largest operator of deepwater oil and gas wells. 

The research and production company Saturn, working with the Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine and the Institute of Radio Electronics at the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, has created and is currently conducting certification tests on a new radio-locating system. This machinery is used at airfields, ports, large railway junctions and major strategic objects to detect and classify moving objects. The developers are convinced that the new radiolocating system has several advantages over its foreign analogs. In particular, it clearly recognizes and classifies moving objects, determining their speed and the direction of their movement. All received data are automatically marked and fixed on the screen. For instance, a human moving on the territory of an airport will be recorded in one color and a machine in another. The cost of the Ukrainian installation is about 200,000 dollars, which is 40 percent less than the price of foreign analogs. Saturn has been working on the Ukrainian electronics market for over 40 years, and remains the only manufacturer of over-noise receiving systems for radio astronomy in the CIS. 

The plant Eurocar, which manufactures Skoda vehicles in Ukraine and is part of Atol Holding, increased its production by almost 2.3 times in January-March, 2011, as compared with the same period in 2010. It produced 2.258 million cars in the three months this year. According to the statistics reported by the association Ukravtoprom, in March the plant manufactured 1.207 million cars — 3.2 times more than in March 2010, and 64 percent more than in February this year. According to Ukravtoprom, in January-March overall car production in Ukraine increased by 2.3 times compared with the first quarter of the previous year — to 21.622 million cars. At this, in March Ukrainian car manufacturers produced 93 percent more cars than in the same month last year, but 1 percent less than in February 2011.