Press releases

Ravil Maganov, First Executive Vice President of OAO LUKOIL, Leonid Fedun, Vice President of OAO LUKOIL for Strategic Development, and Maria van der Hoeven, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA), discussed key trends and the world energy development outlook, in Moscow today.

LUKOIL has commissioned a diesel-fuel hydrotreatment unit at the Perm refinery, re-equipped as part of the quadripartite agreement signed in July of 2011 by the company, the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Rostekhnadzor (Russian Federal Service for Ecological, Technical and Atomic Supervision) and Rosstandart (Federal Agency on Technical Regulation and Metrology).

Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and Andrei Vorobyov, Governor of the Moscow Oblast, signed a cooperation agreement between the company and the oblast government, in Krasnogorsk today. The agreement will be valid till December 31, 2018.

Sales of LUKOIL’s ECTO fuel with improved performance characteristics have started in Serbia.

Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan, signed a 2013 Project Implementation Protocol, in Kazan today, as part of the cooperation agreement between the company and the republic’s government.

Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and Nikolay Merkushkin, Governor of the Samara Oblast, signed a cooperation agreement between the company and the oblast government, in Samara today. The agreement is valid till December 31, 2018.

In response to numerous queries, the OAO LUKOIL Press Service would like to report that the company is not holding any talks with Far Vista Petroleum Corp. regarding joint projects, nor has it given Far Vista Petroleum any information on the results of its production activity.

Vagit Alekperov, LUKOIL’S President, participated in yesterday’s discussions in Brussels dedicated to promotion of industrial growth in EU.

In response to some mass media reports that the operation of the catalytic-cracking unit at the Nizhny Novgorod refinery has been suspended due to an alleged emergency, the OAO LUKOIL Press Service would like to announce that there have been no emergencies at the unit since its commissioning in December of 2010.