Environment
and
Natural
Resources
Minister
Eduard
Stavitsky
told
a
Kiev
news
conference
on
Wednesday
that
the
two
supermajors
would
soon
develop
two
potentially
large
gas
fields
in
the
former
Soviet
republic,
Reuters
reported.
Shell
will
develop
the
Yuzivska
area,
in
eastern
Donetsk
and
Kharkiv
regions,
while Chevron will
explore
the
Olesska
area
in
the
western
region
of
Lviv,
after
the
blocks
were
awarded
late
last
week.
"Commercial
extraction
on
both
areas
will
begin
in
2017,"
Stavitsky
said.
The
two
areas
could
yield
at
least
15
billion
cubic
metres
of
gas
per
year
and
Yuzivska
alone
-
where
about
3000
wells
were
likely…
