Chairman of the State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources
SERGII PAIUK, was born in 1976 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. In 1998, Sergii Paiuk graduated from Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas with a Master’s degree in Oil and Gas Geology.
In 1998-2003, he worked as an operator-researcher of the 4th category and a geologist of the cycling process plant at the Solokhiv gas field in Kotelva, Poltava region (enterprise “Poltavagasvydobuvannya”). From 2003 to 2005, he worked as a leading geologist at the Department of Geology and Deposit Development at “Ukrgasvydobuvannya” (National Joint Stock Company “Naftogaz of Ukraine”). In 2005-2011, Sergii Paiuk headed the Department of Projecting, Analysis of Development of Gas Fields and Resources at “Ukrgasvydobuvannya” (National Joint Stock Company “Naftogaz of Ukraine”). In 2011, he was appointed as the Head of the Department of Geology and Deposit Development at “Ukrgasvydobuvannya” (National Joint Stock Company “Naftogaz of Ukraine”). From 2013 to 2020, Sergii Paiuk headed the Department of Geology at “Ukrgasvydobuvannya”. In 2020-2022, he worked as the First Deputy Chairman of the Board of the Private Joint-Stock Company “National Joint-Stock Company “Nadra Ukrayny”.
He has completed an internship in the United States under the SABIT program. Also he graduated from the Kyiv School of Economics with a Master’s degree in Business Administration. Sergii Paiuk holds the title of “Honorary Subsoil Explorer”.
Deputy Chairman of the State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources on Oil and Gas
VASYL SOBOL, was born in 1979 in Pryluky, Chernihiv region. In 2001, he graduated from Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas with a Master’s degree in Oil and Gas Production.
In 2001-2020, Vasyl Sobol started as an engineer-technologist of the 3rd category at the research department of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Natural Gas at SC “Ukrgasvydobuvannya” and worked his way up to become a head of the Department of monitoring and planning of geological and technological activities at JSC “Ukrgasvydobuvannya”. In 2009-2015, he worked part-time as a senior lecturer at the Department of Oil, Gas and Condensate Production of the National Technical University “KhPI”.
Author of more than 15 scientific publications and supervisor of more than 30 scientific manuscripts.
Deputy Chairman of the State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources on Ore, Non-Metallic and Solid Combustible Minerals
STANISLAV LYTVYNIUK, was born in 1982 in Bukovyna, Ukraine. He graduated with honors from Ivan Franko National University of Lviv with a Master’s degree in Geology.
In 2007, Stanislav Lytvyniuk completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Geology and Geochemistry of Combustible Minerals of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. In 2010, he defended his PhD thesis on “Geochemistry”. Since 2010, he has been working at the State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources. Author of more than 20 scientific papers and instructions of the State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources. Professional activity and scientific interests: geology of ore mineral deposits, classification systems for minerals, methods of geological exploration and geological and economic assessment.
Chief of the Administration for Nonmetallic Minerals, Groundwater and Information Technologies in Geology, State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources
OLEKSII NETSKYI, was born in 1982 in Poltava. In 2005, he graduated from the Geological Faculty of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
He worked as a technician in the Groundwater Protection Department of the Institute of Geological Sciences of the NAS of Ukraine, an engineer in the Geological Survey Department of the Ukrainian State Research Design Institute for Civil Agricultural Construction “UkrNDIprotsyvilsilbud”.
Oleksii Netskyi has been awarded with the Medal of V.I. Luchytskyi. Author of more than 50 scientific papers, including more than 5 monographs. Spheres of scientific research: mineral deposit geology, engineering geology, medical geology, economical geology and hydrogeology.
Head of the Department of Combustible and Ore Minerals
VOLODYMYR BALA, was born in 1979 in the village Hrimne, Horodok district, Lviv region. He graduated from the Faculty of Geology of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv (2001) and obtained a specialty of “geologist-ecologist”. In 2002-2004, he studied at the Institute of Postgraduate Education of Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas to obtain a specialty of “mining geophysical engineer”.
In 2001-2003, he worked as a geologist of the Geophysical Party № 59 at the Western Ukrainian Geophysical Exploration Expedition, since 2003, as a geophysicist of the 2nd category in the party № 113 of the Technological Center for Processing and Interpretation of Geological and Geophysical Information, in 2007, as a chief geophysicist of the expedition №1 of LLC “Vikoil LTD”. Volodymyr Bala participated in the implementation of a 2D seismic survey contract (primary processing and quality control of field material) for “Burren Energy” (ENI) in the large dune distribution area in Yemen. In 2009, he worked as a geophysicist in the sector of seismic information processing at CJSC “Concern Nadra”. Since 2009, he has been an employee of the State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources.
In 2021, he completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Geology of the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and defended his PhD thesis on “Economic Geology”. Spheres of scientific research: geological and economic assessment of mineral deposits, classification systems of minerals.
Author of more than 20 scientific papers and instructions of the State Commission of Ukraine on Mineral Resources.