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The United States is ready to share with Ukraine the technology behind environmentally friendly production of shale gas, the Ukrainian Energy Ministry said on Tuesday.

During a meeting on Monday of the Ukrainian-US working group on energy security, Ukraine’s Environment and Natural Resources Minister Eduard Stavitsky said his country intends to reduce imports of energy resources and increase domestic natural gas production.

US Department of State’s Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy Affairs Carlos Pascual, who also attended the meeting of the working group, said the United States has technologies for ecologically safe production of shale gas and was ready to share its know-how with Ukraine.

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