{"id":151869,"date":"2026-07-06T15:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T12:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151869"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:25:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T13:25:00","slug":"u-smart-energy-zayavyly-pro-blokuvannya-investyczij-na-32-mlrd-grn","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/u-smart-energy-zayavyly-pro-blokuvannya-investyczij-na-32-mlrd-grn\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Energy Says UAH 3.2 Billion in Investments Have Been Frozen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"352\">Smart Energy has been forced to suspend its UAH 3.2 billion investment program following the renewed suspension of several of its special permits for natural gas production. The announcement was made by the group&#8217;s CEO, Oleksii Zaiets, in an interview with NV Business.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"614\">According to Zaiets, after some of the company&#8217;s assets were partially unblocked in 2024, Smart Energy prepared a large-scale development program for 2025 that included drilling new wells, constructing new facilities, and modernizing production infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"354\" data-end=\"614\">&#8220;We planned to implement development projects totaling UAH 3.2 billion. These investments were intended for Ukraine&#8217;s natural resources and included drilling new wells, as well as the construction and modernization of production facilities,&#8221; Zaiets said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"874\" data-end=\"1071\">However, following the renewed suspension of the company&#8217;s production licenses\u2014even though Smart Energy itself is not subject to sanctions\u2014the investment program could no longer be implemented.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"874\" data-end=\"1071\">&#8220;Our investment activities have effectively come to a halt and have decreased fifteenfold,&#8221; the Smart Energy CEO stated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1197\" data-end=\"1462\">The company also noted that Enwell Energy, a UK-based company whose Ukrainian assets remain idle due to sanctions imposed on its former beneficial owners, has invested more than $450 million in Ukraine&#8217;s natural gas production sector over the past 15 years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1464\" data-end=\"1834\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Zaiets further pointed out that in 2024 the Ukrainian government introduced a mechanism that allowed part of the company&#8217;s assets in the Kharkiv region to resume operations without lifting the personal sanctions imposed on former owners. Smart Energy believes that applying a similar solution today would also enable the suspended investment program to move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151870,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151869","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151869"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151869"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}