Zhaikmunai plans to start selling gas in summer.
Zhaikmunai plans to start selling gas in the summer as a strong cash position at the end of 2009 allows the company to finance all its capital expenditures this year.
Industrial gas production at the Yuzovska and Oleske fields is to begin in 2017, Ukrainian Environment and Natural Resources Minister Eduard Stavytsky said at a press conference at Interfax-Ukraine in Kyiv on May 16.