Past contractual pressures from Russia won’t resurface as Ukraine becomes energy independent in the next five years, the prime minister said. Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman told local leaders the oil and natural gas industry in the nation was recovering to the point that domestic reserves could be used to satisfy demand . “After five years, we should get complete energy independence,” he said. Ukraine is one of the Eastern European countries rich in shale natural gas . Fledgling hydraulic fracturing campaigns have emerged over the past five years, though impediments to doing business like higher taxes in the country led some companies to pull the plug. Ukraine has around 21 trillion cubic feet of proven natural gas reserves, though […]