Ways to improve the use of natural gas in Ukraine

The article describes new technologies to utilize the oil-well gas and to process it into liquid products. The causes of incomplete utilization of oil-well gas are determined. There were identified the peculiarities of extraction and utilization of oil-well gas during the operation of oil fields and the main factors that influence the choice of methods to utilize the oil-well gas. The methods and means of utilization of oil-well gas were described and the promising directions of their development indicated. There were developed the criteria of selection of efficient methods to utilize the oil-well gas and of creating the conditions that encourage the implementation of these methods in the fields. The level of utilization of oil-well gas was determined, which occurs on remote and depleted fields and on the fields, which are located in areas with poor infrastructure. The basic causes of torch burning of oil-well gas were established, namely too high costs of measures for its utilization in the absence of an appropriate regulatory legal framework and the general systematic approach to the selection of cost-effective methods of gas utilization. There were detected the main factors, which influence the technical and economic efficiency of measures on gas utilization. There were elaborated the suggestions to improve the regulatory legal framework to regulate the production and utilization of oil-well gas, in the form of recommendations to draft legal documents.