The sales of oil products in retail at the filling stations of the Glusco network in 2018 grew by 7% in January and by 15% in February compared to the same periods in 2017. Sales of goods in the market at filling stations in monetary terms also increased by 15% in the first two months of 2018 compared to January and February 2017, according to the press center of Glusco.

On March 1, 2018, 256 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada voted “For” the adoption in the second reading of bill No. 3096-d on deregulation of permits for oil and gas production. The bill implies the use of the servitude mechanism for the construction of oil and gas production facilities and pipeline transport without changing the purpose of land.

OKKO-Agrotrade, a member of the holding of one of the members of the Oil and Gas Association of Ukraine – OKKO Group, plans to finance agrarians for 3 billion UAH., The press service of OKKO.  

February 21, 2018 Leonid Kosyanchuk, former president of the Association of operators of the Ukrainian petroleum products market, was appointed to the position of general director of the Trading House “Sun Oil”, manager of the retail network SunOil, the company’s press service reported.

On February 23, 2018, the Uriadovy Courier newspaper published a ruling of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine “On approval of the list of state supervision bodies that are not covered by the Law of Ukraine” On Temporal Features of Implementation of Measures of State Supervision (Control) in the Sphere of Economic Activity ” dated December 18, 2017.

At the end of 2017, a member of the Oil and Gas Association of Ukraine, Glusco, paid 3.2 billion taxes and duties to the state and local budgets of Ukraine, including 1.65 billion UAH of excise tax and 43.5 million UAH of unified social contribution (ERU).