Ukrgasvydobuvannya, Ukraine’s largest gas producer and part of the state Naftogaz Group, put into operation a high-rate well that produces 274,000 cubic meters of gas per day, Naftogaz Group reported on July 30. Once heavily dependent on Russian gas, Ukraine successfully shifted to other suppliers in the previous decade and expanded its own production. For the first time in history, the country went through last winter using only its own gas. “The commissioning of the new well increased the daily production of natural gas at the deposit by 17%,” Naftogaz Group CEO Oleksii Chernyshov said. The …