Press releases

OOO LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft (a wholly-owned LUKOIL subsidiary) and Saipem SPA (Italy) signed a contract today to construct subsea pipelines to transport oil and gas from the Northern Caspian fields.

Vagit Alekperov, President of OAO LUKOIL, and Jose Luis Porté, President of Meroil, participated in the festive ceremony today dedicated to the commissioning of a new petroleum terminal at the port of Barcelona (Spain).

A traveling meeting of the OAO LUKOIL Board of Directors was held in Barcelona (Spain) today to make decisions related to the 2012 Annual General Shareholders Meeting.

Among other things, the Board of Directors resolved to hold the meeting on June 27, 2012, at 11:00 am at: 11 Sretensky Boulevard, Moscow, OAO LUKOIL.

LUKOIL started production drilling and construction of a key production facility, namely a Central Processing Facility, at the West Qurna-2 field in Iraq today.

The OAO LUKOIL Press Service would like to announce that Azat Shamsuarov, formerly a Vice President of the Company and General Director of OOO LUKOIL-West Siberia, has been appointed OAO LUKOIL Vice President for Oil and Gas Production.

LUKOIL Belgium N.V. (a member of LUKOIL Group) signed an agreement with Verolma Group to acquire 46 filling stations in the Netherlands and 13 ones in Belgium.

OOO LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft (a wholly-owned LUKOIL subsidiary) and Bumi Armada Caspian (subdivision of Malaysia’s Bumi Armada Berhard) signed a contract in Astrakhan today to construct subsea pipelines at the Vladimir Filanovsky field located in the Northern Caspian Sea.

Vagit Alekperov, OAO LUKOIL President, and Sergey Kirienko, General Director of the State Nuclear Energy Corporation ROSATOM, signed a strategic partnership agreement between the Company and the Corporation, in Moscow today.